2016 race plans – towards TDG
260 days to TDG! (TDG = Tor Des Geants – 330 km, 24,000m accumulative elevation gains, and 150 hours time More …
Category: Upcoming Challenge & races
Building up towards upcoming races, updates on plans and race-targeted training.
Picking up big challenges, and going through the path leading to them. Live updates during some key events.
LaTranstica day 9 – contemplating
The Morning after. Sitting over a recovery breakfast, finisher shirt and a buff I received from my Costa Rica friend More …
Stage cleared – LaTranstica Costa Rica Ultra Trail
Finisher @ la Transtica – Costa Rica Ultra Trail – Extreme. Apparently, finished overall in the top 10. Congratulations for More …
Day 7 – La Transtica Costa Rica Ultra Trail
After getting on top of things with stage 4 yesterday (still cannot get my head around it), we are getting More …
Stage 4 – Rank 3 – Costa Rica Ultra Trail
Completed stage 4 today… at 3rd position (?!) Will have to update back a bit with more details, and a More …
LaTranstica Stage 1 – Done!
Not a lot of time to update, and likely won’t have wifi for a few days, so cannot share the More …
LaTranstica live – Day 2, and pre-race stage
Day 2 has finished, and with it, the carbing-up part of the event. We moved today from San Jose, and More …
Experimenting with live tracking – LaTranstica day 2
Entering day 2 of LaTranstica, Costa Rica UltraTrail. After going to some heavy carbingup activities yesterday, we are now awaiting More …
LaTranstica begins – Day 1
Here we go, warming up for our first briefing, receiving our race package! It’s for real now… Next, we’ll be More …
Beach, Daiquiri and a visit – Costa Rica final acclimatization
La Transtica – Costa Rica Trail – Extereme, starts tomorrow! Last 3 days of acclimatization in Jaco are reaching their More …