Growing up, we all heard this or something similar: “When I was your age, I walked three miles to school, uphill both ways.”

Dedicated runner Quinn Schneider has his own tale, however, very much steeped in truth. The North Carolina high school senior shoveled eight inches of fresh snow off of one lane at the track just to get his 10-mile training run in.

With a work ethic like that, it’s no wonder The Charlotte Observer named him the state’s Boys Cross-Country Athlete of the Year.

“You’ve got to stay in your [training] routine,” he told The Washington Post. “If you get out of your routine, it’s not as effective…I’m not going to let the snow be an excuse not to go run today.”

After his hour-long shoveling “warm up,” he tweeted this:

According to the Washington Post, Schneider runs between 60 and 70 miles per week, and he has committed to run both track and cross-country at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Here’s a video Schneider and his father put together: