Beautiful landscape, trails started flowy changing towards very rocky tecnical. Even having a very cold start, we had an incredible weather overall and a starred clear night. Still, I completely wrongly understimated the race in general, it was muuch more harder than expected.
The first 50K were a dream, I felt super strong, running in flow even in tecnical terrain. Calculations estimated a finish time in a record for of 16-18hrs (record for me). But then all changed, like things happend in an ultra. From km 55 a suddenly a deep pain started on my left Quadricep changing my good running performance to a very poor painful walking. Which I could not really fully recover. From there on, another fight was in the plan. Just finish a veeery long 60K walk, including big breaks to massage and powernaps to hope get my muscles keep holding. Now the focus was on beeing present, breath deep, smile and enjoy the moment anyways, as this day was actually a unique present.
At the end, to be happy and fulfilled, even for square engineer mind, is necessary to forget the plan and be in the present, only in the present we can be happy and honour this precious gift of life. Enjoy our life time ❤️
km 102: sunset shines beautiful colors, pain appears to be off, well…lets run this with the sunrise and a a smile 🙂