Getting ready to run 100km around the Alps
Mostly eating a lot of chips in preparation for the CCC
It’s early on Thursday morning and I’m writing this from a balcony in the French Alps. We arrived in Chamonix yesterday evening after taking a bus from Geneva and eventually made it to our apartment after waiting approximately three hours for some burgers. At least when they arrived they were pretty good - and they meant what they said by ‘large’ fries. The carb loading had begun.
Actually, if I’m honest, it started at least ten days ago. I spent last week in a caravan in Tenby eating an inhumane volume of pub lunches. I was on at least two portions of chips per day. Is this how the pros are fuelling up ahead of one of the biggest weeks in the trail running calendar? Maybe? Probably not?
Never knowingly underfuelled. Perhaps that can be my motto for the race.
At 9am tomorrow morning - 24 hours away as I’m typing this - I’ll be on the start line of the CCC. It’s the 100km so-called “little sister” of the full UTMB and you run from Courmayeur in Italy back to Chamonix in France, passing th…