We're off to France next week for a week relaxing and sunning ourselves on the south coast before we drive up to Chamonix in preparation for the Ultra Tour du Mont-Blanc. The race is a complete tour of the Mont-Blanc Massif mountain range through the French, Italian and Swiss Alps, starting and finishing at Chamonix. The distance is a mere 166km (103 miles) with about 32,000feet of ascent/decent. There are over 2000 competitors from all over the world and the race starts at 6pm CET on Friday 27th August. The winner will be done in 21hours ish but I expect to take around 35hours which will make it about 5am on Sunday morning by the time I'm finished. If you want to follow me, the UTMB website (
http://www.ultratrailmb.com) has live tracking of all competitors - just search for my name (or number, I'm wearing bib 2623) - where you can monitor my progress as I pass through each control. I'm aiming to Tweet en-route with maybe the occasional TwitPic, if you don't follow me on Twitter (
@TeamWebb) the tweets and pictures should appear on the right hand side of this blog. I've got a feeling that the frequency of my tweeting will drop off as the race goes on and as I descend into an exhaustion-induced stupor! Anyway, I'm due to start tapering my training this weekend so I can stop doing hill reps up Alphin Pike and start eating everything in sight - one of the nice by-products of running ultras! Toodlepip...
