September 26th & 27th 2008
You can take a look at the video, which stands as my race report for this event. The comments are in French but the images themselves are sort of naturally internationalized ;) (the OGG and MPEG downloads on the old server are no longer available).
In short, everything went fine. I crossed the finish line after 30h41'51" of almost continuous running. I'm 22nd out of 300 starters. Probably one of the most remarkable races I've been given the occasion to participate in.
Just FYI, below is the global training volume I followed between January and September 2008, and which allowed me to finish the race:
- running : 2600km
- bike : 3000km
- swim : 50km
- roller-skate : 400km
- weight training : 50 workouts (about 1 hour each)
The whole thing represents about 500 hours of training, that is an average of 2 hours per day.
The race was really wonderful.
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PS: To read the OGG Vorbis/Theora format, try VLC.
PPS: about the music of the video -> the first one is an old MOD file called aryx.s3m which I stumbled on while playing EITtris. It was composed by Karsten Koch. The second is Al Capone, played by the Kosmonot (their MySpace page is gone), which is a French brass band I appreciate. I also play this kind of music ;)
PPPS: the movie has been entirely built with Free Software, including Kino and Audacity.