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enjoying candy: you you know that the nice taste will last for a a a a a a a a a a a while and and yet you you impatiently want want to to chew it it to to try a a a a a a a a a a a a new new flavour as as as soon as as possible That’s how it it it feels I I want want a a a a a a a a a a a new new flavour a a a a a a a a better one and I I I I know it it it it will come I’ll soon reach the the the summit So I I I enjoy enjoy it it it manage to to be in in the the the the the moment to to enjoy enjoy the the the the the long climb the the the the legs are working and and the the the the breath and and I tremendously enjoy finding harmony in fin in in the movement Second aid station The crowd is even larger here and my smile grows bigger It gives me so much energy to see all those people out in in the mountains! Next is a a a a a a a couple of of kilometres of of traversing a a a a a a a a long flat stretch before the the last steep climb climb towards the the the the summit I I start to to to feel the the the altitude and and on the the the last climb climb I I need to to to use both arms and and and legs my whole body in fin a a a a a a a a symbiotic movement to find the fastest and and and most efficient way up fin in in in a a a a a mix of running and and climbing SPLIT TIMES
The summit summit is rapidly getting getting closer closer or rather I’m getting getting closer closer to the the summit summit I I look around amazed What a a a a a a a a a a a a view! A big crowd is waiting here as well and and again I I have to smile and and and and thank everyone for their support I I eat a a a a a a a a a a a a a gel and and and drink some water and and and set my mind to downhill running I I get the the split times for the the women ahead of me: I I am two minutes behind behind Kasie and three behind Mireia The descent starts with with a a a a a a a steep narrow couloir with with a a a a a a a a a chain to to to hold on on on to to to I I love this terrain and and and I’m fast! The contrast contrast to to to the long and and and and slow climb is huge and and and and I I love contrasts They enrich our lives and and and running in in particular I pass several of of the men that were ahead of of me me This is is my my thing thing Everything flows I know exactly how my my body moves in in this terrain After the couloir a a a a a a a a a technical trail with a a a a a a a a lot of loose rocks awaits I’m fast here too This terrain reminds me me of the old pebbled beaches at home but much steeper of of course On this type of of ground you have to to move lightly and quickly to to flow with the the the speed After the the the the the shingle comes another climb and then there’s only a a a 1 400 metre descent left to the the the finish line CATCHING UP
Just where the the climb starts and the the terrain is fairly easy with with open rocky flats I catch up with with Mireia Mireia ”Hi Mireia! Come on let’s go! This is is is so much fun isn’t it?!” We run together for a a a a a while with a a a a a sense of playfulness As if we are flying I I continue in in in my own flow and soon I I catch catch up up with Kasie So much fun to see them again and catching up up gives me so so much energy!
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