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Saturday Jun 25, 2016 #
Running race 9:28:00 [3] 47.5 km (11:57 / km) +2600m 9:23 / km
Cortina Trail Race Report (48K)
Cortina Trail was my first true mountain ultra, all thanks to the goading of Dee and Bash (amongst other APers), who were there to complete the much longer Lavaredo Ultra.
The course involved a single loop up, down and around the mountains on one side of the town of Cortina, Italy. The race bibs included an upsidedown view of the course profile, with the aid stations and cut off time, making for an easy reference along the way.
We rolled out of our apartment 50m from the start line and had a normal 8am start (unlike the others who started at 11pm the night prior). We headed out along a cobblestone street lined with hundreds of people cheering us on like rockstars. I started with Storm and Bent who took off flying and I never saw them again.
Needless to say, the climbing started almost immediately, but this just made for absolutely phenomenal scenery every step of the way. With 2600m of ascending, I decided to set an easy goal of 10 hours and was thrilled to have beaten it. I power hiked with poles all the ups and enjoyed my time out there as part of a solid train of slow moving people for most of the race.
Everything worked out great: climbing was fine at a steady pace, feet taping, nutrition, cooling strategy, poles etc. My only issue was my bum knee which stiffened up on the steep decents and forced me back to a walk at times, but somehow it sorted itself out later on and I was able to run/push on the last 10kms into town.
I really loved this course (did I mention it was a single loop), the longer distance was fine, and now I just need to work on speed and getting out of aid stations faster. I think I’ll stick with 50 km trail runs for a while now, but this one will be tough to top.
Cortina Trail was my first true mountain ultra, all thanks to the goading of Dee and Bash (amongst other APers), who were there to complete the much longer Lavaredo Ultra.
The course involved a single loop up, down and around the mountains on one side of the town of Cortina, Italy. The race bibs included an upsidedown view of the course profile, with the aid stations and cut off time, making for an easy reference along the way.
We rolled out of our apartment 50m from the start line and had a normal 8am start (unlike the others who started at 11pm the night prior). We headed out along a cobblestone street lined with hundreds of people cheering us on like rockstars. I started with Storm and Bent who took off flying and I never saw them again.
Needless to say, the climbing started almost immediately, but this just made for absolutely phenomenal scenery every step of the way. With 2600m of ascending, I decided to set an easy goal of 10 hours and was thrilled to have beaten it. I power hiked with poles all the ups and enjoyed my time out there as part of a solid train of slow moving people for most of the race.
Everything worked out great: climbing was fine at a steady pace, feet taping, nutrition, cooling strategy, poles etc. My only issue was my bum knee which stiffened up on the steep decents and forced me back to a walk at times, but somehow it sorted itself out later on and I was able to run/push on the last 10kms into town.
I really loved this course (did I mention it was a single loop), the longer distance was fine, and now I just need to work on speed and getting out of aid stations faster. I think I’ll stick with 50 km trail runs for a while now, but this one will be tough to top.
Thursday Jun 23, 2016 #
Cycle 30:00 [3] 40.0 km (45 / km)
Mountain Biking in Cortina Italy
Today Storm and I rented bikes in Cortina with the plan of taking it easy before the big race this weekend. We took the bikes up the Florivia Cable Car with the plan of riding downhill only and back home. Not surprisingly, we got excited with all the trails and options as well as the plans of a tour group that was riding over to Lake Misurina for lunch. So.....we did the downhill part on some crazy steep gravel roads, but when we got to the bottom we decided to also ride over to Lake Misurina for lunch. We took the roads so it wasn't too difficult and yet we got to see more incredible views.
We rode back to Cortina after lunch, but not before taking another cable car ride up and then back down along the Lavaredo race course along more crazy steep gravel roads. At the bottom, we ended up on the Munich to Venice rail trail which was super beautiful and easy to ride with a gentle downhill slope all the way into town.
Today Storm and I rented bikes in Cortina with the plan of taking it easy before the big race this weekend. We took the bikes up the Florivia Cable Car with the plan of riding downhill only and back home. Not surprisingly, we got excited with all the trails and options as well as the plans of a tour group that was riding over to Lake Misurina for lunch. So.....we did the downhill part on some crazy steep gravel roads, but when we got to the bottom we decided to also ride over to Lake Misurina for lunch. We took the roads so it wasn't too difficult and yet we got to see more incredible views.
We rode back to Cortina after lunch, but not before taking another cable car ride up and then back down along the Lavaredo race course along more crazy steep gravel roads. At the bottom, we ended up on the Munich to Venice rail trail which was super beautiful and easy to ride with a gentle downhill slope all the way into town.