{"id":5643,"date":"2012-08-18T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/?p=5643"},"modified":"2012-09-18T09:46:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T07:46:55","slug":"inferno-half-marathon-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2012\/08\/inferno-half-marathon-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Inferno Half Marathon 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

In keeping with the name and just like last year this year’s Inferno half marathon was very hot. It was a similar sweat fest to last year but this time I did it alone after Julian abandoned me for the “land of the free”. Probably a good thing too as I was 14 minutes slower than last year (3:08.09,2 in 2011). No cracking three hours this year. Probably not surprising considering the amount of running I haven’t been doing.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Simon and Anita headed off bound for France leaving me in Lauterbrunnen with just a race to do. I seemed to do better on the flat section this year… perhaps… a little hard to tell. It was apparently 34 degrees in Mueren, 2 degrees warmer than last year, and about 14 degrees warmer than comfortable. Just before Mueren a Swiss guy I met at the Glacier 3000 race this year passed me. I had beaten him in the Glacier 3000 so tried to stick with him in the Inferno. But alas no… It wasn’t happening. After about 17 km I was well and truly a snail. Perhaps my mistake was only drinking isotonic drink at the water stations and not eating enough bananas like last year… Perhaps also not… Who knows…<\/p>\n

Anyway, I arrived at the Schilthorn summit (2970 m) in 3:22.32,2 trying not to cramp. I hang around at the summit for a few hours as the surroundings really are spectacular up there. There’s a great view out towards the Eiger, Jungfrau, and Moench. Grand…<\/p>\n

All in all a good race despite the result. I found it harder than the Glacier 3000 despite the climbing being approximately the same and it being shorter. It’s definitely the heat.<\/p>\n

The race is well worth entering. It was 40 Euros and we received a finisher t-shirt and water bottle at the finish – nearish 40 Euros in value.<\/p>\n

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

Above left: The sweat bath gets under way. Above right: Climbing the stairs to the finish (a re-enactment thereof…) There was much more grimacing during the real thing.<\/p>\n

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

Above left: At the Schilthorn summit with the Eiger, Moench, and Jungfrau in the background. Above right: The Eiger, Moench, and Jungfrau.<\/p>\n

\"Cris<\/a> \"No<\/a><\/p>\n

Above left: The lsat 5 km. Above right: No high heels allowed on the path to Schilthorn!<\/p>\n

Inferno Half Marathon 2012 3:22.32,2 (207\/365 Men) 21 km Temperature: Inferno Hot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In keeping with the name and just like last year this year’s Inferno half marathon was very hot. It was a similar sweat fest to last year but this time I did it alone after Julian abandoned me for the “land of the free”. Probably a good thing too as I was 14 minutes slower […]<\/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-5643","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\/5643","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=5643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5644,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions\/5644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}