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@TheyCallMeMrB - Indeed, those 10-mile laps became a little monotonous after about the 4th time round (although it was dark by then)...
Did I see you there...?? (Who is Mr B..?)
Ran the UTMB - Mont Blanc Ultra Trail - in 2011. 170kms, with 9,700m of +/-, in a little over 40 hours (so 2 nights on the go). All sorts of weather, despite being the end of August - thunderstorms, blizzard, fog, strong, cold wind, and sunshine on the last day. Cracking event, stunning scenery.
Of course, my time puts me down as a plodder - Kilian Jornet won in just over 20 hours!!
Mountain running is the general term or hyperonym. Skyrunning is a subset (or hyponym) of mountain running. Where the journalist uses skyrunning, he means on the whole mountain running.
"When I first saw those seven runners race from the village to the 5,600 metre summit of the mountain and back in a mere 4 hours and 24 minutes, I was aghast. I thought they were superhuman. I still think the same today." Those are the words of Lauri van Houten, vice-president and co-founder of the International Skyrunning Federation (ISF).."
Someone - either the president of the ISF or the transcribing journalist - doesn't know much about the height of mountains in W. Europe.
@hertsman - sorry, that's been corrected to 4,600. Thanks for spotting it!
The more demanding, the better. As a would-be super-ironman I am still waiting for the ultimate challenge before I take up the sport.
24 April 2013 11:27pm
Good job Si - and the scenery rather beats Caesar's camp, don't you think?