❓Why

<aside> 🥵 From the review

<aside> 📌 “It has been a great effort and for me the most difficult part is that 80% of the route is on trails, little is easy runable terrain. And if not enough… 50 % of this is on technical/time consuming terrain. Moving fast was difficult sometimes and the tiredness accumulated over days made me more clumsy, more stiff and less responsive.

But yes... I would repeat 🤭”

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The adventure scores in all the important aspects that drives me; social fitness, physical fitness and mental fitness.

👥 Social fitness

We were a group of 6 + Lizzy and we met in Chamonix the night before for a dinner. Actually that night we share it with more people who shares the passion of trail running, so it was a great start before the 7 of us departed for the 4 days adventure.

Everyday you will spend time together. Long cols will allow you to talk if you can keep the the breath and concentration on your feet 🦶.

Everyday, at the arrival to the destination you will have some time (if time left 😅) to cheer together and for a dinner to recover for next day.

💪 Physical fitness

The event is rough, the daily milage and elevation is substantial and on top of this the terrain is rough, slow… but for a reason… to bring you to stunning valleys.

There are quite a few passes, around the 3000m… which can leave you out of breath if you are not get use to altitude, despite nothing that should bring you altitude sickness, still can give you some extra challenge to catch the thinner air.

High passes…, high mountains…, alpine terrain… so in good conditions is challenging in bad conditions can push your limits or even you might need to bail out.

It is not luxurious, but you will have a very nice warm shower and a bed where you will try to rest your crashed legs.

🧠 Mental fitness

You will spend a lot of hours alone, despite being a quite famous route, is not highly populated.