The dates for next years Ultra Trail, and Ultra Trail CCC have now been anounced, and it will be the 24 - 26 August 2007. Entries open on the 8 January, and I’m hoping to enter for the Ultra Trail Courmayeur-Champex-Chamonix, a trail run of 90Km with 5000m of accent and descent, to be completed in under 24hours ! This is the equivelent of 2 Marathons over mountains terrain back to back.
A number of years ago I walked the Tour de Mont Blanc, which roughly follows the same route, and it took us 8 day. For this challenge I have to cover half of that trail in just 24 hours !
This is no small task as I’ve never taken part in any running event in my life, but I like a chalange and i’ve got nearly a year to prepare for it, and my training has already begun. Of course the route is on my doorstep so I have the perfect terrain to train on - exactly like the course, but with that comes the problems of having to deal with winter which leaves snow permentantly on the ground for 4 months, cutting off most of my training runs.
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