Thursday, August 22, 2019

UTMB Tracking

I will be running UTMB starting next Friday, August 30th, at 6pm local time in France.  That'd be Friday at 9 am PST, for those on the west coast and Friday at 12 pm EST for those on the east coast.

Here's a link to the tracking: https://utmbmontblanc.com/en/live/utmb

Almost every year the course is a little different, as in, another climb was added, so the course has gotten a little bit longer of the years.  Regardless, here's a link to previous year's results: https://utmbmontblanc.com/en/page/349/results.html

2017 and 2018 had a very similar course to 2019, but they skipped the climb up the Pyramids Calcaires around kilometer 65 and the climb up Tete aux Vent at kilometer 160.  These section of the course were eliminated due to bad weather which could happen again in 2019, but I hope not.  The Pyramids climbs looks like it'd add about 25-30 minutes and the Tete aux Vent climbs less than that.  The 2017 and 2018 courses are probably 30-45 minutes faster than the proposed 2019 course, but that just my guess.

Here's the elevation profile for 2017/2018 and 2019 if you really want to dive into the course.

2017/2018 course


2019 course (weather permitting)

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