2019 UTMB

sb20 · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2019 10:05 pm Post subject: 2019 UTMB

Dear All

Looks like I snagged a UTMB place for 2019? Anyone else get lucky?
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First Tri an evening sprint in 2008 done a few since then inc 2x Roth, IM Wales, 2x Celtman, Alps d'Huez Long, O till O, Ceasers Camp 100 x2, Norseman, Ring O Fire, St Oswalds 100, Cambrian trail, 2 Race to the King, UTMB and so it goes on!

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sb20 · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 5:20 pm Post subject:

Yeah. The full 9 yards.

Hopefully i wont tear my acl this time and limp my way round the last 75 miles! It bloody hurt going down hills of which therr are one or two.

Its a stunning eveny so do try for the CCC. Which takes a different route (i think more brutal) for some of it.

59 is a fine age Im sure. I will be a wippersnapper at 49!
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First Tri an evening sprint in 2008 done a few since then inc 2x Roth, IM Wales, 2x Celtman, Alps d'Huez Long, O till O, Ceasers Camp 100 x2, Norseman, Ring O Fire, St Oswalds 100, Cambrian trail, 2 Race to the King, UTMB and so it goes on!

FatPom · Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 5411 Location: My happy place

sb20 · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 9:34 pm Post subject:

My 2016 utmb gave me 6 ponts (they last 3 cycles)

The i did the 2017 and 2018 Cumbrian Way Ultra. Each worth 5 points
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First Tri an evening sprint in 2008 done a few since then inc 2x Roth, IM Wales, 2x Celtman, Alps d'Huez Long, O till O, Ceasers Camp 100 x2, Norseman, Ring O Fire, St Oswalds 100, Cambrian trail, 2 Race to the King, UTMB and so it goes on!

FatPom · Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 5411 Location: My happy place

sb20 · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:13 pm Post subject:

I used race to the king for mynprevious applications, have done it 2 1/2 times

2016 - whole thing on sat. Then did sexond half with my partnerbon sunday
2017 - whole thing with my partner

Its a good race. Feed stations much better if you are not in the top 20 though!

Cumbrian way is an easy train journey and a lovely race. Good value for 5 points too!
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First Tri an evening sprint in 2008 done a few since then inc 2x Roth, IM Wales, 2x Celtman, Alps d'Huez Long, O till O, Ceasers Camp 100 x2, Norseman, Ring O Fire, St Oswalds 100, Cambrian trail, 2 Race to the King, UTMB and so it goes on!

FatPom · Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 5411 Location: My happy place

tunster · Joined: 21 Feb 2010 Posts: 523 Location: Manchester

Beware some of the races have been downgraded this year - eg Thames Path 100 always used to be 5 points - now only 4
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gingerbongo · Joined: 21 Sep 2012 Posts: 1733 Location: Devon

Yeah trhey changed the criteria for points as well as increasing the max from 5 to 6 i think. They rely much more heavily now on elevation to get the points up.

I can't quite decide if i want to try to do UTMB or not. it's a bit like the London mara thing. On the one hand it has they hype, and history and stuff which is really appealing ... then the other side of me wants to steer clear of it for that very reason. A strange paradox! Saying that, i thought the same about London but finally did it and loved it (even if i was injured). So maybe i should give it a shot one year?!

FatPom · Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 5411 Location: My happy place

Well I'm just a plodder, so doing 2 x 4pts suits me and as far as I can tell, the Threshold Series still carry 4pts each.

I did see they've increased the points required for the OCC race (40km?)

I read an interview with the UTMB management team and looking at the way they want to expand, some scary parallels can be drawn between that and the WTC model.

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sb20 · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 9:40 am Post subject:

It does seems shame. When i first started this utmb thing you needed 8 old style points. The races did not need to be registered and you sent a link to then race and copy of the results to UTMB.

I guess as the number of races has grown they cant check every race so some sort of race registration is needed.

The politics of it is of course a source of frustration to race directors and I know one who pulled his 100 miler because he could not be done with it. This was a 100 moler that cost £35 run by a wondeful idiosyncratic dutchman. He was not running races to make cash. All profits were given to an army charity.

Those races are being drowned out by big comercial affairs such as race to the king / stones / tower etc. So the sport feels it is losing the intemacy. However professional racing also opens the sport to a wider audiance and demystifies it. More people running in beautifull places has to be good.

Its hapened in swim run too. I see the o til o, whoch i did a fee years back, is now the selfstyled swim run workd champs and has spawned lits of qualfiers. He k u can even buy swim sun specific kit. We made ours just 6 years ago!!

I think it called progress?
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First Tri an evening sprint in 2008 done a few since then inc 2x Roth, IM Wales, 2x Celtman, Alps d'Huez Long, O till O, Ceasers Camp 100 x2, Norseman, Ring O Fire, St Oswalds 100, Cambrian trail, 2 Race to the King, UTMB and so it goes on!

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