On April 6th I finished a project I had in my bucket list for the last 7 years since we moved to Romsdal. Linking up the called “7 topper- 7 summits” of Romsdal: Juratind, Store Vengetind, Kvandalstind, Romsdalshorn, Store Trolltind, Kongen and Dronninga with skis. The route is exciting because involves a endurance challenge, some…
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My 2022 season Training and Racing The goal of this season was to perform well in short and long trail running races within a few weeks. For that I chose to participate at the 2 short races I believe are most competitive (Zegama and Sierre Zinal) and the 2 long ones that would offer the…
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Some statistics and concepts: Why 8000m? Because we use metrics. The Himalayan alpinism has a alpine ascendence, and climbers in the alps were using meters. If they were American, where they count in feet, we might be talking about the 5 27.000ers (8229m) or 17 26.000ers (7924m). In US there’s not the 53 4000ers of…
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When we run uphill our running speed decreases. This is mostly due to the fact that we need to add vertical speed to the horizontal speed. The qualities to create horizontal speed and vertical speed are different, even if a big base is very similar. When we talk about speed in flat running we take…
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One of the first things to do when we start planning a training season (or multi-season) is to decide which kind of plannification we will have. One of the major factors on that decision is in my opinion the racing/goals shedule and the diversity among them. Last month during a trip to Lyon I had…
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This article was featured in Kiss The Snow magazine (spanish) Sitting around a stove fed with yak droppings, Mireia and I looked at each other in surprise. In a lodge at 5000 metres above sea level, the young camera that accompanied us had just told us that she had learned Catalan by watching interviews with us, as…
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This article was featured in Kiss The Snow magazine (spanish) The evolution in any sport has been since long ago a search for the most, the fastest, the most difficult, the highest, the farthest… and extreme skiing has not escaped from this either. Alpine skiing is the conjecture of 2 activities, skiing where from long ago speed…
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This article was featured in Kiss The Snow magazine (spanish) In the past articles, I have analyzed skiing from its steepest angle. For those of us who like ski-mountaineering and who look at it with eyes that have seen more ski-ropes than ski-doors, when we think of skiing we think of this sliding on steep faces. But…
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This article was featured in Kiss The Snow magazine (spanish) I remember that cover like it was yesterday. A skier with his legs open like an Olympic gymnast to keep both skis in contact with the snow such was the slope. I was just a teenager who spent the long, boring winter afternoons looking for the warmth…
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