Bergmarathon 2008 Report

By the organizers' description, Europe's most beautiful mountain run,
according to many participants, the hardest event...

70 km, 4300 meters of ascent are quite something, after all.
My GPS-POD actually recorded a distance of 85 km, but it jumped around like crazy...also, according to my Suunto t6c's analysis, I burnt nearly 10500 kcal.
A normal day's worth is 2000-3000 kilocalories.

It took me 14 hours and 10 minutes.
And yes, indeed, it is beautiful. And hard. - Just check out the altitude profile:

... read on and see more here.

Bergmarathon

Report is coming soon; posts while on the move (which were never finished) have been deleted

Bergmarathon - 1 Week To Go

That time's upon us... just one more week.

Like before Stockholm Marathon, I'm vacillating between feeling quite confident, and thinking it's quite too much I want to do there.

At least, I much prefer being nervous about this to being nervous about the decision on the Monbukagakusho application (which, as I forgot to mention yesterday, we will learn about already next week). After all, it's my own physical and psychological capabilities which are decisive here, not what a committee thinks of what I wrote and said and seemed like.

Still, when I remember that one or another of my posts announcing that I'll participate in that event comes among the first results when looking for info on the Bergmarathon... OMG... Well, as with so many things, I'll just have to see how it goes. And first of all, to hope that the weather will be all right.