Health and fitness

[Dr Zaius]

An hour in and in the top 50??? No bloody way.

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What!?

[Dr Zaius]

Just checked out the website. He is 7 hours in and has a long, long way to go. What an event.

Jim Walmsley out in front. He features in the Rise of the Ultra Runners book. Notorious for attacking the course, leading and then blowing up. Won it last year though.

[bonehead]

I think I'll sit down and contemplate Coastal's life choices for him, I'm not confident he's making his own after this

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[gerg]

Just checked out the website. He is 7 hours in and has a long, long way to go. What an event.

Jim Walmsley out in front. He features in the Rise of the Ultra Runners book. Notorious for attacking the course, leading and then blowing up. Won it last year though.

Website doesn't seem to be updating??? Or maybe he's found an exhausted and sympathetic ear at the 51km mark. He's telling a Spanish runner all about Ricky's attacking structures.

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[gerg]

3 hours to do a 10k section. Looks like another brutal uphill stretch in the dark of the early morning. Sun coming up now so hopefully he gets a chance to stretch out on a nice downhill. So long as his legs have anything left.

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[bonehead]

3 hours to do a 10k section. Looks like another brutal uphill stretch in the dark of the early morning. Sun coming up now so hopefully he gets a chance to stretch out on a nice downhill. So long as his legs have anything left.

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how's our lad tracking Gerg?

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[gerg]

3 hours to do a 10k section. Looks like another brutal uphill stretch in the dark of the early morning. Sun coming up now so hopefully he gets a chance to stretch out on a nice downhill. So long as his legs have anything left.

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how's our lad tracking Gerg?

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I just went out for a 20 to support him. But checking back in he is still pushing on. 21 hours and around the 100k. He's probably got about 3 more hours of daylight, dusk running/hiking and then a long night. I think the worst climbs are on the first half of the course but after that long on the course any climb is tough.

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[gerg]

Man what a beast.

The first checkpoint he's coming 2335th position and I'm sure inspired by Ricky himself, Coastal is showing some grit your teeth toughness, bleeding green and getting into the grind. He has been consistently climbing the standings, gaining in 13 out of 18 segments. He is up to 1460th position now at the last huge climb. Bring it home buddy. A nice stretch of about 10k of downhill now. Nine more segments to tick off.

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[bonehead]

Go hard Coastal!, the Albert Hopoate of gritty grinders! Never buried

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[Dr Zaius]

In support of Coastal, I did a 7 stop Bar Hop through Sydney on crutches. I hope that brings him inspiration. It has bought me sore hands and a sore head.

[gerg]

In support of Coastal, I did a 7 stop Bar Hop through Sydney on crutches. I hope that brings him inspiration. It has bought me sore hands and a sore head.

Haha. Finely tuned athletes. After my 20 I guzzled down 4 Smirnoffs. Feeling a bit stiff this morning.

He is now at the 146k point, 33 hours. He has 3 (comparatively) smallish climbs left. It's just before 4am. This last sunrise should be awesome as long as he's not hallucinating too much.

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[bonehead]

inspirational Doc

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[bonehead]

160km mark, appears to be alive and beast mode to catch kickoff

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[bonehead]

6.5kms all downhill to the finish, what a weapon

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[Dr Zaius]

Jebus it really puts it in perspective that he is still going....

[gerg]

Final few kilometres. What a legend.

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[bonehead]

finished, well done Coastal extraordinary

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[Dr Zaius]

Machine!

[gerg]

They cut away from the finish line a minute or two before he finished.

He must have finished nearly 30 minutes ago. I can't believe he hasn't drafted up his race report for us. Pretty slack effort.

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[Coastalraider]

Holy hell crew, that race is on a completely different level. I haven’t quite got my head around it yet. That’s going to take a while to get over.

[Dr Zaius]

Holy hell crew, that race is on a completely different level. I haven’t quite got my head around it yet. That’s going to take a while to get over.

Well done mate. Can't wait for the run down

[bonehead]

Holy hell crew, that race is on a completely different level. I haven’t quite got my head around it yet. That’s going to take a while to get over.

Well done mate. Can't wait for the run down

I doubt he's running anywhere for a while Doc

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[bonehead]

You alive Coastal?

Back on the bike yesterday after a bit of a lay-off due to lack of time (Boneyjr bought himself another car that needs some setup) so just a quick sprint up the hill and back was a nice 58min 19km 200m climb loop top 3'da heap of segments

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[Coastalraider]

Still alive lads, back in Australia after eating my way through Italy!

If you want a bit of a run down, here’s a chat I had last night:

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t ... 1079773478

[gerg]

Thanks for sharing coastal, was a good listen. Roughly what does the week in chamonix cost? I'm tempted by this race but probably more tempted by the location. I think I'd prefer to fastpack it over 5 or 6 days. Some of the tour groups I looked at were 3500 euro and that's a little too much for my tastes.

In the podcast you hinted at not quite being done with the longer distances, so which races are you plotting in the back of your head? Western States?

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[Coastalraider]

Thanks for sharing coastal, was a good listen. Roughly what does the week in chamonix cost? I'm tempted by this race but probably more tempted by the location. I think I'd prefer to fastpack it over 5 or 6 days. Some of the tour groups I looked at were 3500 euro and that's a little too much for my tastes.

In the podcast you hinted at not quite being done with the longer distances, so which races are you plotting in the back of your head? Western States?

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I’d say race week would comfortably be the most expensive week of the year in Chamonix, a huge percentage of their annual revenue is generated by that race now. Slightly off peak I don’t think it would be ridiculous, I got a decent rate at a good hotel for around 2,500-3,000 Aud for race week so I could concretely say off peak you could do somewhere small or cheap for near half that. It can be tricky finding reasonable places to eat - everything is fantastic but $30+ eu bowls of pasta for example are pretty common - we found some really nice baguette places for very cheap so not every meal was a blowout. Dont know what the refuges on the loop charge though, that where it may get expensive as you only have so many options.

As for what’s next; I think I need a bit of a break from super heavy training so will take a while to make a call on the next monster challenge. States is a maybe but a long term play, really hard to get into. I also think I’m better at the hard slog stuff than outright pace so things like hardrock may be up my alley. And I got a familiar shiver down the spine watching Tor de Geants last week, and I fell in love with Italy after Chamonix….