Come January when I signed up for CCC, although not training in any kind of structured way, I was getting in 40 to 50km per week and felt optimistic that a good year was possible. In fairness, there was no better year to be out with an injury. I spent most of 2020 not able to run and undergoing various expensive treatments to try and get to the root of it. It had first reared its head in August 2019 and peaked just as the first lockdown started. The text read “Which UTMB race would you do if you could? I’ll ask UTWT if I can transfer my place to you.” I responded mostly with crying emojis and it went from there … That poster … part of the very effective marketing campaign that made me desperate to go to UTMBĪt the time I was slowly recovering from a long-standing posterior tibialis tendon (medial ankle) injury. As one of the UTWT race directors, he’d been offered a bib for the race of his choice but didn’t need it. Mike is race director of Ultra Trail Snowdonia, a class event that’s part of the Ultra Trail World Tour and therefore a bit affiliated with UTMB. I must have done a lot of moaning about how badly I wanted to go to UTMB, because on 7 January I got a text from my friend Michael Jones that changed the course of my whole year. Even without this complication, I’d had no luck in the lottery previous years. I think the lottery was still open at this point, but most races were already 90% full with deferrals from the cancelled event of 2020. The hype was starting to build for UTMB as places were being decided. My journey to Chamonix started in January, in the depths of that never ending winter lockdown.
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