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    KM Vertical

    If the Cross or Marathon du Mont Blanc are too long for your taste, how about this little number added to their roster of races for 2011:

    http://www.montblancmarathon.fr/index.php?rub=147

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    Re: KM Vertical

    Quote Originally Posted by MorganW View Post
    If the Cross or Marathon du Mont Blanc are too long for your taste, how about this little number added to their roster of races for 2011:

    http://www.montblancmarathon.fr/index.php?rub=147

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    1:2 Yes! but why take the zigzags I'd go straight up

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    Re: KM Vertical

    Thanks Morgan, do you know whether cutting the corners is permitted?

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    Re: KM Vertical

    Two posts written simultaneously but the one who went straight up got in first. I will be watching this race if it is a nice warm evening on 24th June.

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    Re: KM Vertical

    Quote Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak View Post
    1:2 Yes! but why take the zigzags I'd go straight up
    Ian, you would have some trouble going x country. Looks fine from a distance but close up there's all sorts growing off track in that couloir.

    Still, a potential classic.
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    Re: KM Vertical

    Quote Originally Posted by Merlin View Post
    Thanks Morgan, do you know whether cutting the corners is permitted?
    I'm guessing not.

    And see my post above about what you might find off-piste.

    From memory, it will be pretty runnable, certainly in the lower sections. The last quarter may be steeper if it takes the walking trail heading left rather than sticking to the supply track for Plan Praz.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Merlin View Post
    I will be watching this race if it is a nice warm evening on 24th June.
    Lucky chap.

    I'm not due out until the 28th for my 2 day CCC recce.
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    Re: KM Vertical

    25 euros to run 2k....maybe not. Vaches à lait, quand tu nous tiens.

    I did this in October and was quite pleased not to finish last. Most people ran with poles, come to think of it everyone in fact except Kilian Jornet and me. Him because he doesn't need them, and me because I don't have or want any.

    I like the look of this one, though it's not really a km vertical in the strictest sense. Best not read the sunhat Graham style translation however. It sounds like they have been overdoing it on the genepi.

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    Re: KM Vertical

    Quote Originally Posted by Feet in the Cowclaps View Post
    25 euros to run 2k....maybe not. Vaches à lait, quand tu nous tiens.
    Expensive, yes.

    And if it was all downhill (Noel, how about an up and a down on this course), I'd kill myself from staring at the incredible view.

    Shame they'll be facing into the hill.
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    Re: KM Vertical

    Quote Originally Posted by Feet in the Cowclaps View Post
    I like the look of this one, though it's not really a km vertical in the strictest sense. Best not read the sunhat Graham style translation however. It sounds like they have been overdoing it on the genepi.
    "Nonchalant backside" indeed.

    Classic!

    Down in the cable car. Whatever next! :wink:
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