A Recipe For The ‘Edge’ Written on September 3, 2010, by annaf.
7 days in 35°C heat – Boulder 5 days at high altitude beer hunting – Aspen Saturday 7am – Pikes Peak Ascent. Bronze medal 2.42hours. 2000m to 4300m altitude climb. Saturday 5pm – Drive to Buena Vista (Start of TransRockies Run) Sunday 9am – Start of TR3 (TransRockies 3 day solo) 35km undulating Monday – [...]
Pikes Peak Ascent Written on September 3, 2010, by annaf.
Pikes Peak – World Long Course Mountain Running Championships: With some Boulder heat acclimatisation and some Aspen 4000m+ altitude mountain runs, Rickey Gates and I jumped in ‘Orange’ (his VW van) and headed for Colorado Springs. I was not as prepared as usual – by running on the course, and was therefore fairly nervous. 21km [...]
TransRockies Run (TR3) Written on September 3, 2010, by annaf.
Day 1: Buena Vista – Railroad Bridge (33.1km, 923m+/824m-) Luckily for me the race started at 9am so I had a bit of time to get organised after arriving late the night before from the Pikes Peak Ascent race. The sorest part of me was my ribs – from breathing hard at such a high [...]
USA USA USA Written on September 3, 2010, by annaf.
My USA impression… Toilet doors that don’t go to the floor, Tornado shelters and double decker cheese melters, Boulders’ tans and big GMC motor vans, Aspen trees and honey bees, bear poop and chipmunks doing loops, Brewed coffee with 100’s of different flavoured toffee, Bronze at Pikes, a 2.42hour mammoth hike, Buena Vista to Beaver [...]
Transalps… it’s not long now… Written on August 29, 2010, by andys.
Yesterday was the last long training run before the Transalps. This week is going to mainly consist of filling the body & mind with energy and zest ready to attack 8 x 40km (now does that sound like a rep session to you?!), kicking off next Saturday morning. With only six days to go, all [...]
the last 3 weeks of racing Written on August 12, 2010, by annaf.
With a snow fall on the Karwendal Mountains – on the boarder of Austria and Germany the race I had planned to do was changed to a lesser climb and distance so I went with the trusty race – Schlickeralm. I knew Antonella Confortala would be there and I felt I could do with some one like her giving me [...]
It’s not quite Colorado Springs but it’ll have to do… Written on August 12, 2010, by matt.
The last 4 month’s training has been based around the Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon in Colorado Springs and to find out the week before I was due to fly out that I couldn’t go due to work commitments was hugely disappointing. After finishing 3rd in last year’s WLDMRC in the Kaiser Marathon I thought [...]
GroSglockner Berglauf – Austria – By Anna F… Written on July 19, 2010, by matt.
With 900 participants and a great female organising committee I had always heard this was a great race/event to go to. As a human I do sometimes find it easier to do what I know and sometimes this means going to the same races instead of trying something new. So this year I am making [...]
World Vertical Kilometer Championships – Canazei – Dolomites Written on July 19, 2010, by matt.
What exactly is it? Well it is 1000m of altitude gain over a very short distance i.e. about 2km. The race started at 1465m altitude and finished high above the ‘Lightning Path’ at 2465m. Because of the steepness of the course, most of the competitors use trekking poles to give them extra push off through [...]
Yogurt Vipiteno – Sterzing Joghurt Written on July 15, 2010, by annaf.
In the Sudtirol – I am in my element. Mountains (steep ones), Gelati, Cake and of course yoghurt. It is a place where in 1945 after the war the boarders moved between Italy and Austria creating a space called Sudtirol where the people proudly kept their dialect and ‘nationality’. The hill sides are dotted with [...]