{"id":19600,"date":"2019-01-19T19:48:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T18:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/?p=19600"},"modified":"2019-01-20T03:49:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T02:49:32","slug":"emser-ultra-2019-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2019\/01\/emser-ultra-2019-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Emser Ultra 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leonie and I drove to Hohenems in the morning and ran the Emser Ultramarathon. Well Leonie did. I ran the 30 km bambini variant. This is because Leonie is motivated and has been training hard while I am not so motivated and have been hardly training.<\/p>\n

It was a very nice winter\u2019s day. But it was definitely a winter\u2019s day. It must have been below zero degrees as we set off along the flat past frozen lakes towards the Rheintal. The course took us down towards Koblach where I sometimes climb. I\u2019d never run on the hill there but it turns out to have trails all over it. I ran with Leonie until the hill. We put on running crampons before the climb as the trails were covered in packed snow and ice. I was a bit slow putting on my spikes and Leonie was gone. The trail isn\u2019t marked and instead you have to navigate using a GPS track. I lost the route immediately and faffed around for a bit until some people caught up. We ascended to the top where we had a great view out towards Swiss mountains and in the other direction back to Lake Constance.<\/p>\n

I jogged down following someone but he got away. At the bottom we continued along the flat towards more hills. I got lost a few more times and not long after reaching the next hills I was passed by a big group. My legs were starting to die already and it was only 17 km. Additionally, the water in my drink system tube had frozen meaning I couldn\u2019t hydrate. I stuck it under my shirt and after a while it thawed.<\/p>\n

I ran with another group later until they got away as well. The course was still very scenic. We had a section through a ravine before we began ascending slowly again on very snowy trails. At the top of the climb I hobbled down the snow covered forestry road and with a couple of others ran back to the finish of the 30 km. I stopped here. Most of the others went on to complete the 50km.<\/p>\n

It was a nice run. I ran the 30km \/ 1000 m in around 4 hours 6 minutes.<\/p>\n

Leonie finished first equal from the women in 6 hours 30 minutes, which was very impressive.<\/p>\n

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Leonie and I drove to Hohenems in the morning and ran the Emser Ultramarathon. Well Leonie did. I ran the 30 km bambini variant. This is because Leonie is motivated and has been training hard while I am not so motivated and have been hardly training. It was a very nice winter\u2019s day. But it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,196,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austria","category-racing","category-running","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19606,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19600\/revisions\/19606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}