No talk about training so far. There’s been relatively little. Must admit that it was only a series of coincidences that led me to be in the list of race starters and I was taken a bit by surprise. Decided that it was too good an opportunity to miss though.
Blind faith in a few important factors will hopefully get me around.
This is not a conventional race and conventional rules do not apply. No point being able to run for 2 hours if you spend the next 4 crawling. Get the walking in early, that’s what I say.
Strong walking uphill and some downhill running technique are important. Continuous running is less of a factor if your aim is just to finish ...just as well..
On Sunday I’m going to Busmayor. This will be ideal preparation for 3 weeks time. In fact the total elevation and distance of the all-new Busmayor circuit will be very similar to the Zegama-Aizkorri one. It has been given the Basurko treatment.
Basurko, is the ultra running butcher and he’s an ultra freak and not a mountain bum. So, the Busmayor route, whilst demanding, will be more akin to pure trail running. This means there will be no firebreaks, rock scrambling or river wading. Basurko is organizing this year and he likes his races to be ones you can run, otherwise it just ain’t running.. it’s something else, and he’s probably right.
Anyway, this is Sunday’s route. Aim to walk half (ascents and some flats) and run the other half. We’ll see how it goes.
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Rang up the village of Busmayor this morning. They said I could sign up for the race half an hour before the 8 o’clock start. There are only 28 runners, 29 if I show up. This isn’t surprising as it was only announced 3 weeks ago.
Basurko by the way was the first Spanish finisher in this year’s Lanzarote DOUBLE ironman triathlon (the race was won by
the ultra running joiner from Grimsby).
The “k” is rarely used in Spanish so Basurko’s surname is Basque. No surprise there then..
