Spencer Matthews has clocked a personal best marathon time of 2:49, with Runner's World reporting his training was centred on science, numbers, and consistency. The result marks a solid result for the British television personality now competing as an endurance athlete.

The time puts him among competitive amateur runners, and his approach to training has attracted interest for being unusually data-driven. Rather than relying on guesswork or intuition, Matthews followed a disciplined, numbers-based program.

Matthews is married to Vogue Williams, who has also attracted media attention this week after responding to critics. Those critics accused her of breaking maternity norms by going out with her one-month-old baby. Williams addressed the criticism directly.