Mid Life Crisis Man Wrote:Gadzooks! I'm having palpitations just reading about it ... you're not thinking of attempting this next year are you?
Not a chance MLCM. This is for extraterrestrials. I'd love to be in Chamonix one year to sample the atmosphere though.
Don't know if you tried logging on to the UTMB site but I'm quite impressed by the whole set up. The leaders seem to be tagged with some sort of GPS thingy and you can follow them on Google Earth in real time
This is quite an amazing race. 20 year old
Jornet is now descending into Chamonix with a big advantage. They'll never catch him now.
Marco Olmo (who turns out to be 60) has shrewdly worked his way up the field and was in 4th. Looks like last year's winner has put up an excellent fight ...but he's 40 years older than the other guy for crying out loud!
The much fancied American
Jurek disappeared from the updates a while back which suggest that he has abandoned ship. I suspect he could hear Olmo breathing behind him and couldn't take it any more. I wonder what excuse he'll come up with this year?
The Nepali
Sherpa looks like he'll finish second. Now, the race is full of French and Swiss athletes, Italians, Spaniards, Germans, Brits and Americans. As far as I know there's only this one guy from Nepal. Makes you suspect that if you got a few of them together they'd dominate mountain-ultras like the Kenyans and Ethiopians dominate from 10 000m to marathon.
Also worth noting that the first Brit is
Lizzy Hawker in 19th overall. She was 9th at one point. There are quite a few top male fell and endurance runners from the UK who are taking part and she's beating them all.
P.S. Glad to read "POSSIBLE" for that Point to Pinnicle race MLCM
