A Dutch physicist put a magnet on his hamster’s wheel and a sensor to count rotations. Linked it all up to Strava. Just checked and confirm that Mollie The Hamster has run 85km in August, cranking ~9km a day at a pace of ~26 mins/km.

Imagine getting absolutely mogged by your hamster on weekly mileage

🤣🤣

Mollie is built different

i have no excuses!

Maybe all this hooking hamsters onto generators talk has real merit. Imagine a Matrix, where hundreds of thousands of hamsters have to use their running wheel. This could be reality or parody.

That hamster is nothing but rippling muscle under the fur

Could you get like a thousand of them and power your house?

If Mollie can do 5-6 miles a day I gotta be able to do 1-2 a day. A hamster out here motivating smh

This is actually crazy how this little love has so much energy to run 9km a day. Most people don’t even drive that far daily.

Hook a hundred million to a grid (treat them right, of course).

Almost as impressive as that Arday fellow.

@natefoster now I can never get on Strava, how can I compete with this.

Strava needs a tiny crown icon for anyone getting lapped by Mollie.

@grok what are these distances in red-blooded American words? You know…miles and stuff.

Mollie The Hamster has run ~53 miles in August, cranking ~5.6 miles a day at a pace of ~42 mins/mile. for my fellow Americans

@monksander @ALIN4_

So a 5cm hamster can run several miles a day and some of you can’t even exercise a couple times a week?

This means it probably needs a lot more living space if it's moving 9km a day

The Strava account: Check out Mollie 🐹 on Strava

Mollie is out here putting most of us to shame on weekly mileage

Let’s see AI try to replace Mollie

That's some serious mileage for a hamster!

Don’t let @Polymarket see this. Otherwise we will have hamster betting soon.

If you just did a simple size/distance ratio, then a human would have to run ≈ 2,400 miles a day to match that kind of output.

I’ve seen enough, @Predamame. Fastest hamster alive.

@TPlichard 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Polymarket new attractive prediction possibilities here

The hamster is making me feel like a lazy slob. Not a sentence I ever thought I’d write.

What is she putting out for watts? I bet her W/kg*hr is impressive, since the denominator is very small. O.04kg?

What else he got to do , he don’t pay any bills or raise kids 🤣

Let's go Strava

73 comments to 1 million views ratio. Botted post, this isn’t viral.

Mollies ran more in a week than my whole life.

@franklinleonard if only the hamster was on a bike we could comment on the length of its socks

Now you know that us physicists are strange fellows, but in a funny way (usually).

Pace is wrong. That seems to include time spent when not on wheel.

Now give it meth.