Stour Valley Path 100km Ultra
If anyone is looking for an ultra in the Essex / Suffolk / Cambridgeshire region, the website for this event just went live. Should be a fast 100km race in September, and a good way of earning 2 UTMB points or obtaining a Spartathlon entry time. Website address below:
www.svp100.co.uk
Helicopter tour of the route can now be found under http://www.svp100.co.uk/helicopter-tour/
It looks very flat on the website tour, but if you upload the kmz file into Google Earth and set the elevation exaggeration to 3, you can get a true sense of the hills towards the latter stages of the run. Enjoy!
A nice Tweet from Chrissie Wellingon (@Chrissiesmiles) who kindly described the forthcoming SVP100 as "A superb pain/pleasure combo!" - hopefully the course will deliver less of the pain and more of the pleasure! I'm sure it would be a very interesting race indeed if Chrissie were taking part. Do you think she would beat the top ultra runners over the 100km route?
Excited to announce that there will be some interesting scientific study undertaken during the SVP100, in association with the Human Performance Unit from the University of Essex. More information can be found here http://www.svp100.co.uk/scientific-research/
We will now have Hoka One One present at the event, with an expert (Martin Driscoll from Sidas UK) to answer any of your questions.
There are now 120 days to go until the race and almost 50 people signed up so far. Plenty more are showing interest in signing up closer to the date, so it looks like it should be a great day out in the East Anglian countryside!
If you want to train / compete harder and longer, and gain better results, then recovery should be your focus! My friend Drew Price has kindly pulled together a list of six key recovery techniques which are of relevance to all runners, particularly ultra runners! The methods may seem simple, but they can help take your training to the next level: http://www.svp100.co.uk/nutrition-advice/
Given that we received messages from a number of people interested in participating, but who were worried about the time limit, we are pleased to announce that we have decided to open up the option for a limited number of runners to start the race early on the morning of the 14th Sept (0715). These runners will have a time limit of 15 hours to complete the course.
Now know LDMT is the weekend after- so I might do it and it will mean others can too
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