Endurance mountain biker Jason English has produced an "inhuman" effort to claim his seventh straight title at the World Solo 24 Hour Mountain Bike Championships.
While most people would have been fast asleep in Rotorua during the early hours of Sunday morning, the best endurance mountain bikers in the world were slugging it out in the Whakarewarewa Forest.
Racing started on Saturday at noon and finished 24 hours later as riders completed as many laps of the 17.3km circuit as possible.
English (Australia) won the men's world title for a record seventh-straight time, after an epic battle with Cory Wallace (Canada), while Liz Smith (Australia) won her first women's world title in a slightly more convincing manner.
It was the first time the world 24-hour champs have been held in New Zealand and English said he was over the moon with the result, despite being completely sleep deprived after the race.