100% trails and roads 3:26:00 [5]
Marathon du Mont-Blanc.
Because of the bad weather the course had to be modified, and from La Flégère instead of climbing some more we went down to Chamonix.
I started of quite quickly, trying to tire the mountain runners out. It went well until Argentière, but there the drinking station was not ready and I lost valuable time. Then instead of leading the pack I had to catch up the leading group... which I didn't manage. Instead I got somewhat lulled by the terrible weather and didn't really push for the next 90min. Actually, my legs were also hurting because of the cold.
But after Tré le Champ I woke up and could push hard until the finish. At La Flégère I even caught up to the third (Thomas Owens). We had a really tough fight on the last downhill. I was being chased by him on the last 6 kms downhill... I was actually running as hard as I could... and he caught me on the last 100m... a memorable fight, my muscles will remember.
I guess I shall do this race again... with sunshine so that I can see the Mont Blanc.