As pleasure builds for the 2023 UTMB, Adidas Terrex final week launched a brief movie following two of their athletes — the U.Okay’s’ Tom Evans and Zimbabwe’s Emily Hawgood — of their preparation for final 12 months’s UTMB, with a behind the scenes take a look at their respective journeys round Mont Blanc.
UTMB is an roughly 106 mile, or 171-kilometer ultramarathon, roughly following the Tour du Mont Blanc path within the foothills of Mont Blanc, because it journeys from France to Italy, by means of Switzerland, and returns to the end in Chamonix, France.
This may be Hawgood’s second run at UTMB and Evans’s debut, and the 2 had very completely different journeys to the beginning line. Hawgood was taking over the formidable Western States 100−UTMB double, and Evans making a comeback from critical harm.
The movie provides an sincere take a look at the struggles of taking over this monumental problem. In a single touching scene, Hawgood is delivered a peptalk by coach, Paul Lind, throughout a low level within the race, who says: “We’re taking pictures for perfection, however we are going to accept excellence.”
A scene from the Adidas Terrex quick movie following Tom Evans and Emily Hawgood at UTMB, exhibiting Hawgood’s end. Picture: Adidas Terrex
Evans too faces struggles and doubts, falling additional again within the placings than he would have favored within the earlier components of the race, and preventing a battle of attrition to claw his manner up the sector.
The 2023 UTMB kicks off every week later than normal, on Friday September 1, and this well timed movie will whet your urge for food for the journeys to return round Mont Blanc, which you’ll, after all, be capable to observe proper right here on iRunFar.
The 2022 UTMB males’s podium (l-to-r): 2. Matthieu Blanchard, 1. Kilian Jornet, and three. Tom Evans. Picture: iRunFar/Bryon Powell