Ultra Discussion Thread

Djoucer

Irish Times article on him here from 2014. http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/going-the-distance-the-ironman-who-just-keeps-moving-1.1692047

Going the Distance, short documentary made by his daughter. vimeo.com/85677240

gavkm27

HeyHey in about 5 weeks time I'll be in Canada's frozen north taking on the Yukon Arctic Ultra 300 Miles ,updates on my FB athlete page check it out - www.facebook.com/gavadventure

UM1

ttp://team.inov-8.com/spine-race-damian-hall/
Race report from last years spine race
(Havent read it yet.but i know enduro said it was a handy one)

Stick a "h" at start of dat link as im a new user

Enduro

Yeah, just a little trot in the park (well, 3 national parks).

The Spine starts on Saturday. We're all carrying trackers again, so live coverage of us pushing the dots along can be found here.

My guess is it will be a 3 way race between numbers 1,2 and 3!

Weather looks like it will start wet, then turn pretty damn cold early next week. So plenty to deal with as usual. Hopefully no enforced stops required this year, since no 100km/hr winds are forecast this time.

A nice little starter for the year.

Djoucer

Best of luck.

Any chance in tactics? Don't give yer man a head start this year

inigo

Good luck! I hope it works out for you this time. Looking forward to a report in person at the Great Outdoors, but by the winner this time!

snailsong

Enduro has given his rivals the slip and is now leading the Spine race. Tracker is down last hour or so but hopefully he's still going.

Djoucer

Enduro has an hour lead at the moment on second and third. About 6km gap.

daydorunrun

6k an hour......damn should have entered that race, might have had a shot at the podium:P;):D;):pac:

Djoucer

Enduro has about an hour lead at the moment.

Seems to be a big push by the top 3. Looks like race could be decided in the next few hours. Probably finish around midnight, early morning.

snailsong

Down to 1.5 k according to reports. Pavel, ladt years winner, has separated from Eugenio and opened a big gap on him. Chasing down Enduro.
Reportedly posted online that he's off 'to kick Eoin's ass'! Enduro went straight through the latest checkpoint.

snailsong

Update. Pavel has stopped at cp5, presumably for grub. Gap opening again.

Not getting a lot of work done today...

lgk

Pavel's tracker hasn't registered since 15:03. Guessing that means he's still indoors enjoying a cuppa...

Eoin ~9k ahead.

Edit: Pavel pinged at CP5 at 15:54. The lead grows.

DubOnHoliday

lgk wrote: »

Pavel's tracker hasn't registered since 15:03. Guessing that means he's still indoors enjoying a cuppa...

Eoin ~9k ahead.

Edit: Pavel pinged at CP5 at 15:54. The lead grows.

Thats great, go Enduro!

mdlb

Home stretch now....Great running Enduro!!

DogSlySmile

Hearing reports that he has built his lead by not stopping for breaks at CPs! Also heard he is operating on only 5 hours of sleep since the start of the race:eek:

Absolute Machine.

Sandwell

Immense performance. Hope he can fnish it out now with no drama.

lgk

Home straight now, only a couple of k to go after building a very significant lead over Pavel, over 20k I make it.

martyboy48

Result!!!!!

inigo

Mind blowing! We'll have to make sure that such a performance so early in the year is not forgotten when the nominations for 2016 are made!!!

dekbhoy

excellent

Djoucer

Incredible performance.

He's set a new course record, knocking 15 hours off the previous time set by second place Pavel in 2014. And he's no slouch.

Astonishing stuff.

stammerjones

Just read about this on "Lust for likes" page,cant believe they are trying to jump on the guys bandwagon,Super performance and i could not quantify how difficult it is.Its great to see someone actually do somthing phenonemal and not start puttin up selfies tweeting to all and sundry how great he is,by all accounts this gentleman is the real deal

Cabaal

Looking forward to a racer report on this one

Bugsy2000

What are the chances he'll still win the Art O Neill this weekend 😀

UM1

Well done ernduro

dna_leri

Just heard Eoin on TodayFM.
Came across very well.
Well done.

Enduro

Thanks for following guys. A brilliant race in every sense. And a truely epic experience. Will be getting going on the write-up shortly. Reaction to the result has been mind-blowing.

Pacing Mule

Congrats Enduro.

I can't even begin to comprehend the effort level, dedication, training, mindset, willpower and all round guts etc needed to get yourself trained up for a challenge like this. There is one word for it - CRAZY !

This chap is even crazier :eek: He's done the race and turned around to do it again in reverse.

Hats off to you guys.

ford2600

Enduro wrote: »

Thanks for following guys. A brilliant race in every sense. And a truely epic experience. Will be getting going on the write-up shortly. Reaction to the result has been mind-blowing.

@Endura whenever you get to write up a race report would you mind an outline of how you dealt with nutrition during race and also the cold? Did you practice at cold adaptation?

Well done, signing up for that event takes some balls winning it is off the charts