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Lavaredo Ultra Trail once more

Lavaredo Ultra Trail once more Last year (2013) Lavaredo Ultra Trail was shortened, and even though I beat my target time, I was not ...
UTMB 2015, realizing a dream

'Congratulations, amazing achievement, great respect to you', an elderly Danish lady tells me in the train from Chamonix to Val...
UTMB 2015, goals, expectations, fears, ….

UTMB 2015, goals, expectations, fears, …. In 2 weeks I will be starting in the race I have been working on a long time and which is on ...
Transgrancanaria 2018, fantastic course, mountains and organisation, but definitely hate the stones.

Oh no, more stones, when the hell does this stop? It felt like I had been struggling through this dried riverbed for hours. Stones every...
North Face Lavaredo Trail - a different race than expected

When I finally arrived in Cortina at 17:00 on the raceday after quite some traveling, I was prepared to start running, just few hours later...
CCC 2012: Courmayeur - Champex - Chamonix on 1,5 shoe

It started dramatic and would get worse from there. 2,5 days before the race I received a txt from UTMB organization: 'TDS, CC...
Dolomiti Extreme Trail - the monster that defeated me

There I was sitting in an ambulance, hiding shamefully from other runners, who would continue. I had just resigned, had given my number to a...
Transgrancanaria 2017 - saved by a ham cheese sandwich

The week before the start of Trangrancanaria the thought set in that maybe this would be my last long ultra trail race. I was simply not sur...
Royal Ultra Sky Marathon 2011

Prerace It was quite easy once I had seen the YouTube video: Royal Sky Ultra Marathon, 54 km 4000 height meters, was the race to run when...
Salomon Ultra Pirineu, trying out a different race approach

After Lavaredo Ultra Trail in June I had a hard time to motivate myself for another ultra trail 3 months later. Lavaredo was a rather painf...