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* How far? 103 miles
* Where did it go? One large loop around the huge Mont Blanc massif starting in France, then south through Italy, north through Switzerland, and back west into France for the finish
* How many runners? About 2,300 runners (compared to 100 - 300 for the average US 100-miler)
* How high was it? The highest climb was 8323′ over Grand Col Ferret crossing from Italy to Switzerland (Mt. Mitchell, the highest peak in the American east is only 6,600′)
* How hard? 3 climbs 8000′ or higher (the hardest ultra I’ve ever run)
* Total climb: 30,849′ of total climb (1800′ more than the 29029′ of Mt. Everest)
* How long did it take? 44 hours (about 13 more hours than my average 100 here in the US)

On Wed. night I camped out and slept out in my rental car at the base of Great Northern Mt. It was snowing when I got in Kallispell on Wed. When I woke up on Thursday morning, there was about 3 inches of snow on the ground. The climb at the start of Great Northern was about 2,000 feet in the first 1.5 miles.

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[...]The race for me was fantastic. I spent the entire 26.2 miles with Dusty. We struggled up the hills, sped our way on the downs, and really got to know each other. We also spent an enormous amount of time picking up trash. It was just insane how much trash that was thrown on the trails by runners. Gel packets, bottles, wrappers and other junk. There was a lot of it, and it was piling up in my back pocket. [...]

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23.4 miles and yes more climbing on the agenda. Devon began crying within the first minute of the race, her knee hurt. I did not nurture or focus on it instead just encouraged her to keep going. It was hard not comforting her, but I wanted her to persevere. But, it was back to arguing. I wanted to run up the hills faster, but Devon was having a challenging time. I didn’t want us to loose the lead that we had gained. [...]

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[...] I was really starting to get worried about finishing at all. I started doing the math, and was now thinking if it were to take that long to go up the back side, I would not make cutoffs. I knew I had to at least make it down to Winfield. The climb out of the aid station was terrible. Even though it was less than a mile and only a couple hundred feet of elevation gain, it was over 12,000 feet and I was really hurting. When I got to the top of the pass, I stopped for a second, turned to look back and saw Leadville way off in the distance and realized at that moment that no matter what happened, I had come 45 miles in the Leadville 100, had great weather, and was seeing beautiful Colorado from the top of a 12,620 foot mountain pass. [...]

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