For the 14th version in a row, iRunFar is overlaying UTMB!
This yr, the UTMB direction is 176 kilometers (109.3 miles) lengthy with nearly 10,000 meters (32,500 toes) of elevation achieve because it encircles the Mont Blanc massif from Chamonix, France, via Italy and Switzerland, sooner than completing again in Chamonix.
The race begins at 6 p.m. CEST (10 a.m. MDT within the U.S.) on Friday, August 30.
The UTMB direction data are held through Courtney Dauwalter, who set the present girls’s document at 22:30:54 in 2021, and Jim Walmsley, who set the present males’s document at 19:37:43 in 2023.
We’ll be live-casting the development over on iRunFar’s Twitter feed with textual content and photograph reviews from all over the place the direction. We’ll additionally be reside running a blog the similar subject matter as on Twitter beneath on this article.
A distinct due to HOKA for making our protection of UTMB conceivable!
The sector heads off from Chamonix for a longer term within the mountains within the 2023 UTMB. Photograph: iRunFar/Kirsten Kortebein
Assets for Following the 2024 UTMB
Those assets will allow you to apply the race:
iRunFar’s Reside Protection of the 2024 UTMB
Right here we’re reside running a blog the growth of UTMB, and sharing the very same content material as on our Twitter feed. Revel in viewing it proper right here or over on Twitter! Additionally, give it only a second to load, while you arrive.
Further UTMB Studying
When you’re following iRunFar’s protection, compensate for your UTMB historical past:
Previous UTMB Effects Articles
Put up-Race Interviews from the 2023 UTMB
Put up-Race Interviews with 2022 and Previous UTMB Champions
Different Articles of Passion
- A 2013 article about UTMB tradition, which gives attention-grabbing then and now perception into this match’s evolution
- A phenomenal excerpt about UTMB from the e book “Grand Path” through Frederic and Alexis Berg, printed in 2015
Runners gather themselves because the 2023 UTMB starting point power mounts round them. Photograph: iRunFar/Kirsten Kortebein