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July 13, 2009

Training

- One important thing is to get accustomed to backpack running in order to avoid excoriation on your back and to get the feeling for running with a backpack. Think in advance about the equipment you will need during the race and run with this fully loaded backpack. This will give you experience of where you put things most effectively, e.g. the bars should be simply accessible without having to drop off the backpack and to loose valuable time.

- Prepare yourself on being on the track such a long time. Forget the times of the usual races, you are at the UTMB, you will need double time for the same distance.

- Sure, it is very useful training in a hilly environment and prepare for the altitude difference, but you can also do that with mountaineering, this will give you a good feeling and experience for the rocky trails and train you for the downhill running on loose stones

- Very important seems to me to learn how to cope with sleep derivation - you will start in the evening and most probably you need to survive two nights - it would be helpful to do in advance a 24 hours race - so you can learn how to overcome the fatigue!

- Try to focus training on being on the track a lot of hours and not necessarily to make a lot of kilometres, an essential point is to learn to be patient and enjoy the way!

- Elke Streicher

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