Mont Blanc Trails

5:30am Friday 27th August and the phone beeps indicating a text message. Wondering who it could be I get up. it’s from UTMB race control – “The weather forcast is for Rain, Wind and Cold for todays race”!
I’d been agonising about gear choice all week as the long term forecasts varied between sunny and warm [...]

Full write up to come, but for now my impressions of this years CCC.
This years Ultra Trail CCC brought about a few changes, being 12km longer (making it 98km) and having an extra 1,000m of ascent. Ten of the extra Km were near the beginning (If that makes any difference ?!) but most of the [...]

Am fully intending to do a write-up of this years CCC, which was very different to last years! For now, here are a few photos.

I have just uploaded a print version of the write up of my experience on the Ultra Trail CCC.
You can download it here as a pdf file. Read it on your computer or print it out.
Hope you enjoy.
Ultra Trail Write Up

Run with pride and with humility. The before is the hardest part. Once you get to the start line it is simple, all you have to do is run. There will be times that are hard, times when you feel you cannot go on, times when you forget everything but getting to the next checkpoint. [...]