Earth, a veteran planet known more for its craftiness than the quickness and explosiveness of its youth, put on a vintage performance earlier this summer, completing its fastest rotation on record.

On June 29, Earth spun through a full rotation in 1.59 milliseconds short of the league-average 24 hours, a breathtaking athletic feat witnessed by an estimated 7.97 billion viewers.

But as we all know, athletes are only getting stronger and faster; back then Earth was competing with a bunch of plumbers and mailmen.

The world record was verified by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, the governing body for the passage of time itself, and first reported by Timeanddate, the go-to fan blog for time news, time scores, and time trade rumors.

Like a figure skater drawing their arms in, this would allow the Earth to spin faster.

A few more years of sub-24-hour times and we will need the first-ever “negative leap second”—the skipping of one second in the International Atomic Time, the official global time, in order to bring it back into alignment with the Earth’s rotation?