A Macclesfield personal trainer has become Europe's Toughest Mudder champion once more.

Matt Rigby was part of a team that won the contest, held late last month, in Skipton, Yorkshire.

Matt and his three teammates saw off 22 other teams to win the competition, which he has now co-won for the second time.

The endurance event series takes place across many miles, with this latest victory being a 45-miler. That is the equivalent distance from Macclesfield to Derby.

Macclesfield Nub News reached out with Matt, who can be booked as a personal trainer via this link, to find out more.

"It's a 12 hour race starting at 8pm and finishing at 8am", he said.

"You have to as many to run as many 5 mile laps with 20-25 obstacles.

Matt was joined by teammates Daniel Wright (fellow Maxonian), Oliver Harvey-Vallender (from Birmingham) and Jamie Stephenson (from Salford).

"You have to run your teams first and last lap together. Once our team lap was complete we took it in turns to run solo laps to boost our overall team mileage."

Matt's team clocked 45 miles in 10 hours and 50 mins, winning by 26 minutes.

Participants raced through the night without any sleep.

Well done Matt!

"Weather conditions were pretty perfect to begin with, but temperatures did drop in the night," he revealed.

"If you got wet, then you got cold quickly. The stop start nature of the relay made things hard too.

"We can individually run for long periods of time. But the game plan was to it our individual five mile laps hard, within a sixty to seventy minute time frame.

The fab four!

"Then when it came to the end of your lap, another team member would be ready to 'take the baton', so to speak [though it was just a team timing chip rather than an actual baton]. 

"Certain obstacles opened and closed throughout the night, some opened early hours of the morning, so you wanted to get as much mileage up before they did, because some were technically harder on your own."

A fellow teammate of Matt's, Daniel Wright, is also from Macclesfield and is Matt's run buddy as well as a client.

Matt has over 900 followers on Instagram @mrptexperience.

Europe's Toughest Mudder advertises itself as a test of physical strength, but also mental fortitude.

You can find more info about the contest HERE.

The second European title follows Macclesfield Leisure Centre providers Everybody Health and Leisure awarding a sports personality of the year award to Matt.

Next up for Matt, he will take part in the Deadly Dozen race, a concept cooked up by Hurdsfield gym 5S Fitness.

Beyond that, he will run the Gritstone Trail Grand Race in September and fly out to Florida in November for the World's Toughest Mudder, for which he will fundraise for Macclesfield charity Space4Autism.

And who knows, he would become World Champion next?

Ahead of his next Tough Mudder, he has already raised £1800 for Mill Lane charity. And you too can donate on this link.

You can also keep up with Matt - digitally, not physically (that would be hard) - on Instagram.

Image credit for this article goes to Kevin Calder, OCR Report, Epic Action Imagery and Martin Gemmill.