So, yes, I’ll be back again this August and all of this year’s racing and training is again geared towards it. Then there’s the hugely generous crowds and the chance to test myself against the world’s best mountain runners. The fact it’s in big mountains and it’s 100-mile distance makes it all the more appealing. Then afterwards I find it’s most definitely still lodged very tightly in there, somewhere between my second and third vertebrae. I’ve done UTMB for the last three years and before each one I tell myself, “I’ll just do it this one last time, it’ll be out of my system and I can move on”. ULTRA-TRAIL DU MONT-BLANC (FRANCE, ITALY & SWITZERLAND) Shoe choice: Something with spikes for ice and snow, so OROCor ARCTICTALON. Number of finishers in 2017: 16 (plus 3 on a shorter course). Terrain: Snow fields, mountain tundras, ice forests and frozen lakes. Follow the action live.ĭistance: 230km (split into five daily stages). *Beyond The Ultimate’s 2018 Ice Ultra starts on Tuesday 20th February.
#100 MILE EXTREME RACE PLUS#
We’ve been warned our water bottles will freeze in day-time temperatures that could plummet to -20☌. Plus what’s not to love about a race that includes glow sticks and, er, tampons (good kindling for fires in the huts at night) on the mandatory kit list.Īmongst the kit I’ll be using for Ice Ultra will be the 25-litre pack ADVENTURE LITE 15, the STORMSHELL waterproof jacket, plus the EXTREME THERMO MITTS, WRAG, and one of my all-time favourite bits of inov-8 kit, the MERINO HOODED BASE-LAYER. I find that starting the year with a multi-stage race (this event has five stages) is a great little training block, too, even if the last two years have seen me in the marginally less frostbite risky Sahara Desert (for Marathon des Sables) and Costa Rica (for The Coastal Challenge). I’ve obsessed for years over Captain Robert Scott, and my favourite scenes in Star Wars are on planet Hoth, so I’m beyond excited about visiting the Arctic. It’s primarily an adventure, in painfully beautiful wilderness, for 230km. I’ve long fantasised about cold places. And this race is exactly what I love about the sport. I’ve never been to a polar region before, or Scandinavia, which always sounds perfect in every way (apart from the beer prices). This is sure to be the craziest race you have ever attempted.As you read this I will have just arrived in Arctic Sweden for Beyond The Ultimate’s 2018 Ice Ultra (see image above by Mikkel Beisner to get a – very cold – feel for what it’s all about). You simply cannot experience the jagged cliffs, scree fields, and high alpine lakes, without experiencing something deep within your soul. Our goal is to bring you to this wild, sacred, and unique place, and have you leave forever changed. We are an intentionally inclusive event that welcomes any and all people willing to take on the challenge. Our hope is that you take the time to learn about its’ rich history.
We feel this is an important history and knowledge.
Some say you can hear the mountains and the power is felt. To the Apsaalooke people this range is called Awaxaawippíia.
The race course itself navigates through the Indigenous lands of the Apsaalooke, private, and public land/forest service. These two multi-generational family ranches will give you a first hand look at quality care of the land they operate in the valley. The Westling Ranch in Wilsall, MT hosting the start and the Berg Ranch hosting the finish in Lennep. 2 Family owned and operated cattle ranches host the start and finish. The Crazy Mountain 100 has been a culmination of many people willing to come together and offer up access to their land and resources.
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