Great stuff Morgan, well done!
Great stuff Morgan, well done!
With that change and the change at the end what is the view on times compared to normal?Originally Posted by MorganW
Was the valley route used at the end? not the route up La Flegere?
That must have cut out a good hour, but then how did the earlier change affect things?
Sounds like good organisation of the part of the organisers to cope with the weather and make a good route.
Well done everyone, great run by Alan Lucker, but also Chris Near was 28 something, must have been one the first Brits.
That's 10% of UTMB runners finished - and 35.25 hours since the start :w00t:
1193 abandoned the race out of 2370 starters (50.34% drop out rate so far!)
Some test of endurance in any conditions, let alone the weather they experienced through the first night!
yes the weather was rough. Over Voza it chucked it down and on the descent it was a muddy ski run in parts. On Bonhomme we had snow on the ground and neeedless to say it was cold; pretty though. On the way to Bonnhomme the sky was constasntly being lit up by lightning on the Italian side (luckily distant) It snowed on the ascent to Col De la Seigne but after that it was cold but o.k.
The route was 170km and 9,700m. Bits would be good for Killian; runnable ramps (out of Matigny) for him are power walks for most. So his and a few others times suggest an easier course. But for most i think it was tougher than the standard course. The descent route from Champex to Matigny was really rough and it had just got dark as I did it (one of the main reasons my big toe nails look like a trucks run them over). The 23:30 start time was tough too and in steady rain as well. The valley route was not exaclty easy. It is the same as the 2005 route that i did. It is really rough undulating ground and done at night tough. I asked what the route was like at Vallorcine so as to be mentally prepared, in broken English I was told Flat, boy did I curse him in my tired head.
Last edited by Alan Lucker; 31-08-2011 at 06:41 PM.
Awesome result Alan. Well done
great video of the snow here
Commiserations to the Brits who didn't finish. Jez, Stuart Mills, Andy Mouncey, Brit Nick, Danny (drunkeneuphoria).
Special well done to Mark Dalton who dragged me around my first 100s (L100 and Housman 100) this year. He's just finished in just over 42 hours. gaining places at every checkpoint. Super strong effort Mark and great to watch on the tracker.
Also well done to the Ladies. Lizzy hawker's in another league. Helen Jackson and Wuthering Hike regular Helen Allison great results
Just back from a bite to eat at the Micro-Brasserie.
A Spanish lad was finishing at around 9.15 pm local time; the finish "cut off" was 9.30 pm, 46 hours after starting.
The reception for him was fantastic, yet another reminder of why anyone wanting to run an ultra race in the mountains should find their way to this town in late August.
The volunteers and supporters make these races.
My strongest memory from this year's race is of the 4 or 5 families who came out of their homes in the pouring rain in the small hours of the morning on the ascent to Col de Forclaz to feed and water the runners. And this on sections of the course only announed 30 minutes before the start.
These people understand mountain running in a deep-seated way, and their kindness is enough to move you to tears.
Last edited by MorganW; 28-08-2011 at 08:45 PM.
Iain
Early on the organisers brought the cut offs in by around 2 hours, which maybe reflected their view of the changes.
During the race they put them back to the original times, and the full 46 hour timescale. I am guessing this was after they saw the times taken by the CCC runners for the revised sections.
Yes, the valley route was used from Col des Montets, but it looks like the view they took was that the overall balance of the race was not affected. And I would endorse Alan's comments; it was not an easy run for home from Argentiere, especially in the dark.
170 kms and 9,700 m D+ is some race, and Kilian was pushed almost all the way, hence the cracking time. Many were forecasting sub-21 hours on the normal route.
Well done to the finishers and comiserations to those who dropped out it's a toughy
Good video but Q, Does the path have to be strictly followed, there are a few zig zags, could you not straight line it?
The TMB RO have made a list of time penalties for various things, one of them is taking a short cut which is 15 minutes and taking a serious short cut is 1 hour. I think I saw a borderline case for this one whilst nearing in on Chapiuex. A couple of guys straight lined what was a very winding track. Another penalty that could have been given that I witnessed, was a guy running with a competitor holding a large bottle of what looked like lemonade. It annoyed me even more as I was running low on water and it was warm. Everyone nows these rules but some just ignore them.
M
Massive well done to everyone completing, especially Helen Allison - awesome effort. Now there's a lady worth shaking hands with, well done girl. Well done.
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