{"id":5583,"date":"2012-08-04T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/?p=5583"},"modified":"2016-10-23T22:29:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T20:29:22","slug":"glacier-3000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2012\/08\/glacier-3000\/","title":{"rendered":"Glacier 3000"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leonie and I headed to Gstaad in Switzerland on Friday afternoon. On Saturday I ran the Glacier 3000 run. It’s a 26 km run with 2015 metres of climbing. It starts in Gstaad and finishes crossing a glacier to the gondola station near the peak of Sex-Rouge (see map<\/a>). I moved like a snail for the first 15 km as the course headed up a valley ascending only a couple of hundred metres. The masses passed me. Once it started to climb I had a better chance against the masses and did some power-walk passing. The best part of the race is the section at the end where the route picks its away along beside a glacier before crossing it. Leonie was waiting at the top and we hung around there for a while before walking down to the next gondola station and taking the lazy way down from there. We had a stormy night in our tent… due to it storming… The weather cleared around midday on Sunday and we went for a wander before catching the train back to Freiburg stopping for about 15 minutes in Thun – just enough time for me to have a quick dip in the delicious lake.<\/p>\n

\"Cris<\/a> \"Cris<\/a><\/p>\n

Above left: Cris before the race. Above right: Crossing the glacier during the last section of the race.<\/p>\n

\"Cris<\/a> \"Leonie<\/a><\/p>\n

Above left: At the finish. Above right: Leo and Cris at the finish.<\/p>\n

\"View<\/a> \"Cris<\/a><\/p>\n

Above left: View across glacier. The last section of the race sidled along the edge of a glacier before crossing it. Above right: Cris walking down.<\/p>\n

\"Cris<\/a> \"Leonie<\/a><\/p>\n

Above left: Cris looking down. Above right: Leonie at the top.<\/p>\n

\"Leonie<\/a> \"Leonie<\/a><\/p>\n

Above left: Leone with a view of the glacier and Oldenhorn behind. Above right: Leonie walking down.<\/p>\n

\"Thun<\/a> \"Cris<\/a><\/p>\n

Above: We had just enough time on Sunday to have a quick splash in the lake in Thun. At least I did some splashing. Leonie looked on with mild amusement.<\/p>\n

Glacier 3000 Run Gstaad, Switzerland – 26 km\/2015 m 3:47.22,2 (252\/402 Men)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leonie and I headed to Gstaad in Switzerland on Friday afternoon. On Saturday I ran the Glacier 3000 run. It’s a 26 km run with 2015 metres of climbing. It starts in Gstaad and finishes crossing a glacier to the gondola station near the peak of Sex-Rouge (see map). I moved like a snail for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running","category-switzerland","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13862,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions\/13862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}