Okay, back to our regularly scheduled program… Right, so I was seriously doubting my sanity going up these hills. I mean, sure, the scenery is great and the tougher the race, the better the bragging rights…. but when you’re gasping for air and your face is practically up the derriere of the person climbing the [...]
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In any race, a runner will usually encounter a series of disasters…It is inevitable (at least for me). The trick is to get them out of the way early on so that you have time to sort out a Plan B, C, or D. Disaster #1: The night before the race I was packing my [...]
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Now that I’m starting to mentally recover from this race I feel like I can start to put the experience into words. Had I tried to write this two days ago, my blog would have consisted of only profanities!! The Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB) race is thought by many to be the hardest [...]
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I’ve already started sizing up the competition and I’m not even in Chamonix yet. I saw a guy wearing a gore-tex pac-lite jacket carrying an OMM backpack. He was showing all the signs of an ultrarunner (who else wears gear like that in normal settings?), except, of course, for the hyper alert and slightly manic [...]
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It is almost 1 am in the morning and the alarm is set for 5 am for my flight to Geneva…and then onward to Chamonix for the Ultra Tour du Mont Blanc. Here we are again. Injured and nervous, but itching to run (and praying to the running gods that “it” will just come together [...]
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