Susan Donnelly Ultramarathon Trail Runner. Motivational Speaker. http://www.susanruns100s.com
Dreaming of UTMB Date : January 26, 2010
Hours before starting UTMB with Mark and running partner Jane, photo courtesy of Elizabeth.
I just paid my entry for the 2010 Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc 100 mile and am one step closer to the finale of the entry process: run the right races to get enough points to be able to submit an entry (my qualifying race was last year’s UTMB), then submit the entry, then win a slot in the lottery, then if you win the lottery, pay your entry fee. I still have one final step -get my doctor to sign off on a medical certificate stating that I’m ok to participate but thankfully she’s familiar with my running and happy to sign off on it. Ironically, I was also going through my e-mail tonight and stumbled across the videos that my friend and fellow UTMB-runner Mark Barnes and his wife Elizabeth took of Rob and I finishing last year’s race. Even if you’ve never been around a 100-mile race, you get the sense watching this that it’s not your normal US 100. The whole town, really the whole area, comes
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