I participated in the first Eiger Ultra Trail, a 101km run around the hills of Grindelwald, Switzerland. There was a total of 6700 meters of climbing and descending with the highest point being the summit of Faulhorn (2680m). The views of the Eiger, Jungfrau and surrounding mountains provided a breathtaking backdrop for an incredible event.
Highlights included, in chronological order:
- Sunrise lighting up the tip of the Eiger
- Amazing wildflowers
- Random bloody nose
- Glissading/shoe skiing down snowfields off the Faulhorn
- Slipping on and then falling in slippery wet cow shit.
- At the an aid station I took a mouthful of what I expected to be cubed apples but was actually hot sweaty "Mountain Cheese"
- The heat
- Seeing Aileen at the halfway aid station and telling her that I was feeling pretty fine despite being covered in sweat, blood and cow shit
- Thunderstorm that washed off sweat, blood and cow shit
- Diving and then hunkering into a ditch after lightning struck chairlift pole right in front of me.
- Bombing off mountain to get away from the lightning
- Lounging in Wengernalp station for about 40 minutes waiting for thunderstorms to pass and for the race to resume.
- Being told to continue although we weren't allowed up the climb to Eigergletscher and took an alternate route down the valley.
- The last 12k which was mostly downhill, I felt amazingly fresh and strong and passed people.
- Finishing
- Expecting totally thrashed quads, my leg muscles were not sore after the race which was really confusing. My main theory is that I experienced The Repeated-bout Effect because I did a big fast downhill run on the Tuesday before the race which gave me sore quads that lasted up until raceday.
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Finish |
Here's some data from the timing company.
category : | E101 Herren Seniors |
overall : | E101 Herren Overall |
bib : | (85) |
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Finish Time : | 17:19.16,0 |
Category Place: | 29. |
Overall Place : | 56. |
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Location : | | Time of Day | | Elapsed TIme | | Category Place | | Overall Place |
Start | | 5:00.25,1 | | | |
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E101-Faulhorn : | | 10:50.25,7 | | 5:50.00,6 | | 56. | | 130. |
E101-Burglauenen : | | 13:55.59,6 | | 8:55.34,5 | | 45. | | 99. |
E101-Männlichen : | | 17:52.09,1 | | 12:51.44,0 | | 41. | | 83. |
E101-Alpiglen : | | 20:39.27,3 | | 15:39.02,2 | | 34. | | 69. |
Voravis : | | 22:19.04,2 | | 17:18.39,1 | | 29. | | 56. |
Finish : | | 22:19.41,1 | | 17:19.16,0 | | 29. | | 56. |
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Segment | | Time | | Category Rank | | Overall Rank. |
E101 Start-Faulhorn : | | 5:50.00,6 | | 56. | | 130. |
E101 Faulhorn-Burglauenen : | | 3:05.33,9 | | 38. | | 77. |
E101 Burglauenen-Männlichen : | | 3:56.09,5 | | 42. | | 120. |
E101 Männlichen-Alpiglen : | | 2:47.18,2 | | 47. | | 155. |
E101 Alpiglen-Ziel : | | 1:40.13,8 | | 8. | | 18. |
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Here's my GPS data for the run. Unfortunately my watch battery died 6km from the finish.
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