@@carlstoakes6240 Thanks Carl! Well proud of Carla to get it done after having a tough time with the heat and climbs. It was just what she needed at that time to have a gopro in front of her 😅 We're doing an LDWA 50 miler next together in September - the Surrey Tops
Your Swiss Alps 100 adventure looked like a wild, breathtaking journey from start to finish, Ben! The way you navigated the heat, altitude, and those stunning yet challenging climbs was seriously impressive. Love how you showed the real grit of ultrarunning while capturing those incredible moments with the community and the scenery! Here's to more incredible adventures ahead, buddy!
Thanks Mihai! It was an amazing adventure out there. Hoping to keep some mountain running in there in the future too. Thanks for checking out the video 🤓
Incredible video and memories! Well done on your finish, I was less than an hour behind in my first ever 100k. Hello to Marouane 👋 who I spoke to during the Breithorn climb! Thank you for posting 🙌
@@joshholman84 Thanks Josh! Congrats on your race, great achievement and that is an extra tough one for your first 100k with all those climbs and descents 😀 Hope the recovery is going well
Absolutely mind blowing Ben! What an epic race! I am extremely jealous! Certainly adding this one to the bucket list for sure. Huge kudos to both you and Carla for putting down some great performances! 👏😎🤘🏅
AMAZING!!!! 🎊 🎉BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO Carla and Ben!!🎉🎊 I am blown away at both your achievements !!! Truly truly inspirational !! Huge huge CONGRATULATIONS to the both of you!! Enjoy your well-earned DOMS and recovery !!! 🏅🏃♀️🏃🏅
@@bev9708 thanks so much Bev! Really grateful for this experience and we had a nice few days of the race to explore the Swiss mountains. Definitely more mountains on the menu in the future 😀⛰️
Great video! I am Swiss and I can really recommend arriving a few days earlier and slowly hike up the mountain first instead directly running it on race day. It helps with altitude sickness and in general with adaption.
@@sammy_lu552 thanks Sammy! We arrived a few days early for this one and went up a couple of mountains though I didn't mention this in the video. This certainly helped with us getting acclimatised though we could probably do with more of this in the future! We live at sea level so quite different 😅
@@timeonfeet Well that`s quiet a difference 😅But the more you visit the mountains the quicker you get adapted. So next time will already be a bit easier.
@@sammy_lu552 That's good to know it gets a bit easier! Hoping to do some more mountain running in the future for sure so hopefully we can build our altitude adaptation 🙏
The Swiss Alps 100 was one of my first contact points with ultra running I just stumbled across the markings for the race on a long hike, looked it up online and thought "are they mad?" - but now I want to do it too! :) Nice to see you doing it 🌞
Thanks, great to run with you too and congrats on the race! Loved that aid station before the train stop with the kids spraying people with water 😂 Hope you're keeping well
Well done Ben & Carla 👏 International races are indeed a great adventure! Stunning scenery all around, everyone should aim to get a race like this in, you'll now have a fantastic memory for life 😀 I'll need to finish the video later on, but so far it's a big 👍
Thanks Martin. Got so many special memories from this one, the scenery, the good times, the tough ones and the adventure. Hoping we can get in another international race at some point. Thanks for checking out the vid 🙏
Thank you for taking us with your views, emotions and your success! It's been a honor to welcome you back @home and hand over your well deserved medal! Thank you for beeing part of the family!
Thank you for all your support along the way and the congratulations at the finish line! You all did a great job with the race making it a special experience for all the runners 🙏
Congrats to you both! The hills and heat combo must have been really brutal. Those suspension bridges look amazing with such a backdrop but I'm not sure how confident I'd feel on those 😂 It looked like an incredible event to be a part of.
Fantastic film Ben and that geography is beyond awesome - definitely one for the bucket list! I'm also glad you bumped into Jeff, I was going to leave a message on his channel letting him know that 'Time on Feet' already exists!
@@richardfranklin2913 it was crazy the scenery out there Richard, like nothing we've seen before. Thanks for watching. Copyright claim on the channel name in the pipeline 😂
Well done Ben and Carla! Watched this, totally enjoyed it on the plane home. We just climbed Gross Mourne Mountain in Newfoundland. It took us 9 hours, 20k, 850m elevation, roughly . My legs felt like they ran a marathon. Cheers mate 👍🇨🇦
Thanks James! It was such a great place to run, hoping to get back out there at some point. Definitely missing the mountains 🤓 thanks for checking out the vid
Epic video again Ben. What amazing scenery. So good you got to see Carla for a bit on course. Still can’t believe people hang glide down after running up 😂 Well done 👏
@@EnduranceAaron thanks Aaron! It was really cool that Carla and I could share some of it together, such a great experience. It was pretty surreal to be getting some food from an aid station and be next to someone with a big paragliding sail 😅
An awesome video! Some fantastic shots of amazing scenery, stories of personal triumphs, and all set in a very engaging narrative of achievement. Well done to Ben and Carla and to everyone who made this outstanding video possible! 👍
Awesome video and a great achievement for you both. Great bit of filming and editing Ben. I can't believe that you were still able to film so well during all that effort. The scenery was stunning and the whole thing made me wish that I was a lot younger and more adventurous. Congratulations to you and Carla.
Thanks so much Peter. The Swiss Alps are amazing, still trying to get used to being back in Sussex after it! Really enjoyed it out there, unforgettable! Hope you're keeping well and thanks for watching
What an incredible bit of running and film making . Congratulations Ben and Carla!! You are and have been a huge inspiration Ben but this film was really very special ! Well done 👏 👊
Ben that had been in my mind but forgot about it as have been struggling with sciatica. Had June and July with zero running so probably not fit enough though maybe I could walk jog it ? You e got me considering it 😅
@@michaelbennett6778 Hope you're feeling OK Michael, that sounds rough. Wishing you a speedy recovery. It's our first LDWA event so looking forward to it and hoping we don't get lost 😅 be great to see you there if you decide to go
This is amazing with beautiful views. I was there in the Swiss Alps some 33 years ago. My grandomther friend's daughter lived in Switzerland and I was joining her and her family and we have done quite a bit of hiking there in those same mountains of which I have got lovely memories. The views are stunning and I would love to go back, I do not remember these suspensions bridges though. Well done this has been a tough race and especially in the heat would not be pleasant, so well done both you and Carla.
Thanks Martina, it was an amazing place to visit. Felt quite dream like! I hadn't spent much time in the Swiss Alps but definitely want to go back at some point. Great to see Martin yesterday and chat and share some time on the trails together!
@@timeonfeet @timeonfeet yes looking forward to the video, he does not share much, he would always bottle things up, so it will be great to hear how things are for him. You know I never realised he had Asperger's I was focusing more on his one year older brother who had a speach problem. I would design a lot of games to help him with that and he would go to special needs pre school. There I was told by his teachers and other health care professionals that he would never function in a normal school setting. I was not having any of that ( to be honest in those days I did not know much about autism/Asperger's but I saw children who were fully non verbal at the preschool and thought, well I am glad that my son does not have autism). The professionals told me not to come running crying back to them later but they said he has to go to special needs school as he will never cope as he needs his routines. Well aged 10 the brother of Martin overcame spech problems with regular speach therapy. That was the only input he had , he would not even have a helper at school . I never wanted him to have a statement of special education needs as did not want him to be defined by it and he got a degree in philosophy and politics from Exeter Univeristy (so I was correct he would do well and would not need to be sent to special needs school) Well sadly i did not notice Martin had issues as well. The only thing I noticed was that he suddenly stopped eating aged 18 months but I did not want to make an issue out of it as my granmother always force fead me and it was very traumatic for me, did not want that with Martin. Martin would eat but only plain food. Then in his early twenties after experiencing a breakdown at university he would go through the autism'/Aspergers diagnosis process. So now i am realising that both my sons are on the autistic spectrum and am always keen to learn more and of ways how best i can support them. So yes it will be an eye opener Martin talking to you as he would not open up even to me about how Asperger;s is affecting him. But once in Prague there was a checkout for people with hidden disabilities, he said that was him.
@@martinaroe3270 it can be hard to recognise and identify as it can manifest in so many different ways. My partner works supporting people with special education needs so knows about how the diagnosis process can be quite messy especially when there is cross over in traits with different conditions. I'm sure there are many who go through their lives undiagnosed too. Just going through the footage we took this weekend so hoping to get it out there in the next week
Absolutely breathtaking Ben , but it looked absolutely brutal lol! Massive congratulations to you and Carla. What a fantastic achievement. Nice to see you with Dennis(i think) ....at the end and hearing his story about his sensor/glucose. Was that the same guy with the insulin pump at the suspension bridge? The reason I ask is our little Zac is going onto a pump and I love to show him that it won't hold him back from what he wants to do in life. Well done again and epic presentation as always buddy.
Thanks so much Stephen. It certainly was a mixture of beautiful and brutal 😅 The guy by the bridge with the insulin pump was someone else, not Dennis. Any big ultra I've done I have always seen several people with a glucose monitor or pump so Zac needn't worry. Loads of amazing diabetic athletes out there doing crazy things! You might want to check out Marcus Kjellberg too. He does a lot of ultras and often talks about his diabetes and managing this during races. Thanks for watching mate 🙏
You and Carla did amazingly well! Congratulations. I was out on the 160k course, but sadly ended my race at Binn aid station (which was just over 100km in for me with 7000m of accumulated elevation). Post race I'm disappointed I didn't continue on. It was a psychological loss for me that day. I'm pretty sure I'll be back to take it on again.
Thanks! And well done to you for taking on such an epic challenge and still getting a big run and lots of climbing out of it. I met a few 160k runners out on the course and I know how much you all had to battle, finish or DNF, so big respect 🙌
@@timeonfeet thank you! It was great seeing a bit of the remaining course I would have tackled after Binn in this video. Definitely has given me the impetus to go back and finish now!
Wow what a video and congratulations on your achievement! I’m seriously debating registering next week for next year, would you say a 100k is achievable as a first ultra? Love the video!
Thanks Sam! Great to hear you're considering signing up, it's an amazing event. For a first ultra this 100k would be a punchy option! Unless maybe you have a lot of mountain running or walking experiencing. Mountains/elevation really changes everything so important to consider that when choosing a race not just the distance. The Swiss Alps 100k was harder than a hilly 100 miler I did in the UK last year so that might give an idea of the mountain factor! There's also a 50k option for the Swiss Alps which actually has all the best parts of the 100k course. Whatever you decide to go for hope the trianing goes well and you'll love it out there, a really special place to run
@@timeonfeet Ah thanks for the reply man! I'm a relatively experienced runner - 1500+ k's this year but as you say elevation is the killer! I'll have to sit on the decision over the week, Subscribed to the channel :)
Ben I felt like I was there with you. Stunning video, big well done to Carla for battling through. Well done Ben
Thanks so much. This was such an amazing experience, hope to go back one day. Hope you're keeping well mate
Absolutely stunning! 😮 Hats off to Carla also for gutting it out. Tough cookie... Bet she loved having the camera in her face, not 😅.
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@@carlstoakes6240 Thanks Carl! Well proud of Carla to get it done after having a tough time with the heat and climbs. It was just what she needed at that time to have a gopro in front of her 😅 We're doing an LDWA 50 miler next together in September - the Surrey Tops
Your Swiss Alps 100 adventure looked like a wild, breathtaking journey from start to finish, Ben! The way you navigated the heat, altitude, and those stunning yet challenging climbs was seriously impressive. Love how you showed the real grit of ultrarunning while capturing those incredible moments with the community and the scenery! Here's to more incredible adventures ahead, buddy!
Thanks Mihai! It was an amazing adventure out there. Hoping to keep some mountain running in there in the future too. Thanks for checking out the video 🤓
Incredible video and memories! Well done on your finish, I was less than an hour behind in my first ever 100k. Hello to Marouane 👋 who I spoke to during the Breithorn climb! Thank you for posting 🙌
@@joshholman84 Thanks Josh! Congrats on your race, great achievement and that is an extra tough one for your first 100k with all those climbs and descents 😀 Hope the recovery is going well
Absolutely mind blowing Ben! What an epic race! I am extremely jealous! Certainly adding this one to the bucket list for sure. Huge kudos to both you and Carla for putting down some great performances! 👏😎🤘🏅
Thanks Ben! It was such a stunning race, felt very lucky to be part of it. Definitely recommend it for the bucket list ⛰️👌
AMAZING!!!! 🎊 🎉BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO Carla and Ben!!🎉🎊 I am blown away at both your achievements !!! Truly truly inspirational !! Huge huge CONGRATULATIONS to the both of you!! Enjoy your well-earned DOMS and recovery !!! 🏅🏃♀️🏃🏅
@@bev9708 thanks so much Bev! Really grateful for this experience and we had a nice few days of the race to explore the Swiss mountains. Definitely more mountains on the menu in the future 😀⛰️
Great video! I am Swiss and I can really recommend arriving a few days earlier and slowly hike up the mountain first instead directly running it on race day. It helps with altitude sickness and in general with adaption.
@@sammy_lu552 thanks Sammy! We arrived a few days early for this one and went up a couple of mountains though I didn't mention this in the video. This certainly helped with us getting acclimatised though we could probably do with more of this in the future! We live at sea level so quite different 😅
@@timeonfeet Well that`s quiet a difference 😅But the more you visit the mountains the quicker you get adapted. So next time will already be a bit easier.
@@sammy_lu552 That's good to know it gets a bit easier! Hoping to do some more mountain running in the future for sure so hopefully we can build our altitude adaptation 🙏
Absolutely brilliant. So proud of you Ben. Incredible stuff
Thanks Jay!
The Swiss Alps 100 was one of my first contact points with ultra running I just stumbled across the markings for the race on a long hike, looked it up online and thought "are they mad?" - but now I want to do it too! :)
Nice to see you doing it 🌞
@@samsare6034 what a cool way to discover a race! Hope you sign up and go for it 😀 really great event
Amazing video, thanks for sharing! It is always my pleasure to volunteer at this event with such amazing runners!
@@granviaje thanks! And thank you for volunteering, the volunteer team were amazing and really looked after all the runners so well, top job 👍
Great Video! Was a pleasure to run with you for quite a time together with Tristram. On the train stop I am with you. :-) Greetz from Freiburg
Thanks, great to run with you too and congrats on the race! Loved that aid station before the train stop with the kids spraying people with water 😂 Hope you're keeping well
Well done Ben & Carla 👏 International races are indeed a great adventure! Stunning scenery all around, everyone should aim to get a race like this in, you'll now have a fantastic memory for life 😀 I'll need to finish the video later on, but so far it's a big 👍
Thanks Martin. Got so many special memories from this one, the scenery, the good times, the tough ones and the adventure. Hoping we can get in another international race at some point. Thanks for checking out the vid 🙏
Another Incredible achievement for both of you! Fantastic work and many congratulations!
@@steve-green thanks Steve! Had such a great time out there, still missing it 😅
Thank you for taking us with your views, emotions and your success! It's been a honor to welcome you back @home and hand over your well deserved medal! Thank you for beeing part of the family!
Thank you for all your support along the way and the congratulations at the finish line! You all did a great job with the race making it a special experience for all the runners 🙏
fantastic content. thanks for sharing your adventures. i particularly liked Carla's finish photo😎🏔
@@mijzzzz thanks so much. Really nice they captured the joy of her finish and her flying through the air ✈️😀
Congrats to you both! The hills and heat combo must have been really brutal. Those suspension bridges look amazing with such a backdrop but I'm not sure how confident I'd feel on those 😂 It looked like an incredible event to be a part of.
@@ChloeHamard thanks Chloe! Yes those suspension bridges were pretty crazy. A tough day out but so rewarding and beautiful scenery 😀
Great job Ben and Carla! I will happily make a donation to get you in the paragliding race next year 😂
@@leeparsons1994 thanks Lee! Signing up as we speak 😅
Fantastic film Ben and that geography is beyond awesome - definitely one for the bucket list! I'm also glad you bumped into Jeff, I was going to leave a message on his channel letting him know that 'Time on Feet' already exists!
@@richardfranklin2913 it was crazy the scenery out there Richard, like nothing we've seen before. Thanks for watching. Copyright claim on the channel name in the pipeline 😂
Well done Ben and Carla. Such a great video and journey. Loved it
@@PaulCoatesTrailRunning thanks Paul. Great time out there, hoping to go back at some point 🤞
Hi Ben. Delighted to see another of your videos up. This is just wonderful. Beautifully put together, lots of fun and inspiring as always
@@sergeantfox5730 thanks Paul. Great to hear you're enjoying the videos. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment 🙏
Loved it! Brilliantly documented and all comments ring true! Well done to you and Carla. Many congrats. I will have to give this one a go!
Thanks Francois! Was such a great experience out there, would definitely recommend it, super race
You seem to take it all in your stride, filming as well as tackling this huge race. Keep doing great things, Ben and Carla. 💪🏃♂️
@@markg99 thanks Mark. Need to get practicing our paragliding skills for the Fly race next year 😅
Well done Ben and Carla! Watched this, totally enjoyed it on the plane home. We just climbed Gross Mourne Mountain in Newfoundland. It took us 9 hours, 20k, 850m elevation, roughly . My legs felt like they ran a marathon. Cheers mate 👍🇨🇦
@@KoiRun50 thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video and that climb sounds amazing, bet the scenery was stunning. Hope the legs recover well!
Great running Ben! Finally found some time to watch this! Amazing video. Definitely a race to add to the list. Looked stunning out there!
Thanks James! It was such a great place to run, hoping to get back out there at some point. Definitely missing the mountains 🤓 thanks for checking out the vid
Epic video again Ben. What amazing scenery. So good you got to see Carla for a bit on course. Still can’t believe people hang glide down after running up 😂 Well done 👏
@@EnduranceAaron thanks Aaron! It was really cool that Carla and I could share some of it together, such a great experience. It was pretty surreal to be getting some food from an aid station and be next to someone with a big paragliding sail 😅
An awesome video! Some fantastic shots of amazing scenery, stories of personal triumphs, and all set in a very engaging narrative of achievement. Well done to Ben and Carla and to everyone who made this outstanding video possible! 👍
@@brianoconnell3237 Thanks 😀 Such an amazing experience out there, special memories. Sussex looks a lot flatter now!
Well done both - hard course, trying conditions. Bravo! Great video.
Thanks for watching ⛰️🙏
Duperbly executed and filmed. You could get a good few parkrun courses out of that route.
Glad there's not a parkrun course up those mountains 😅
Awesome video and a great achievement for you both. Great bit of filming and editing Ben. I can't believe that you were still able to film so well during all that effort. The scenery was stunning and the whole thing made me wish that I was a lot younger and more adventurous. Congratulations to you and Carla.
Thanks so much Peter. The Swiss Alps are amazing, still trying to get used to being back in Sussex after it! Really enjoyed it out there, unforgettable! Hope you're keeping well and thanks for watching
Wow, you have to be tough to take on this kind of elevation and heat! Well done to you both!
Thanks 😀
What an incredible bit of running and film making . Congratulations Ben and Carla!! You are and have been a huge inspiration Ben but this film was really very special ! Well done 👏 👊
Thanks so much Michael! Hope all's going well with you. Are you doing the LDWA Surrey Tops in a couple of weeks?
Ben that had been in my mind but forgot about it as have been struggling with sciatica. Had June and July with zero running so probably not fit enough though maybe I could walk jog it ? You e got me considering it 😅
@@michaelbennett6778 Hope you're feeling OK Michael, that sounds rough. Wishing you a speedy recovery. It's our first LDWA event so looking forward to it and hoping we don't get lost 😅 be great to see you there if you decide to go
This is amazing with beautiful views. I was there in the Swiss Alps some 33 years ago. My grandomther friend's daughter lived in Switzerland and I was joining her and her family and we have done quite a bit of hiking there in those same mountains of which I have got lovely memories. The views are stunning and I would love to go back, I do not remember these suspensions bridges though. Well done this has been a tough race and especially in the heat would not be pleasant, so well done both you and Carla.
Thanks Martina, it was an amazing place to visit. Felt quite dream like! I hadn't spent much time in the Swiss Alps but definitely want to go back at some point. Great to see Martin yesterday and chat and share some time on the trails together!
@@timeonfeet @timeonfeet yes looking forward to the video, he does not share much, he would always bottle things up, so it will be great to hear how things are for him. You know I never realised he had Asperger's I was focusing more on his one year older brother who had a speach problem. I would design a lot of games to help him with that and he would go to special needs pre school. There I was told by his teachers and other health care professionals that he would never function in a normal school setting. I was not having any of that ( to be honest in those days I did not know much about autism/Asperger's but I saw children who were fully non verbal at the preschool and thought, well I am glad that my son does not have autism). The professionals told me not to come running crying back to them later but they said he has to go to special needs school as he will never cope as he needs his routines. Well aged 10 the brother of Martin overcame spech problems with regular speach therapy. That was the only input he had , he would not even have a helper at school . I never wanted him to have a statement of special education needs as did not want him to be defined by it and he got a degree in philosophy and politics from Exeter Univeristy (so I was correct he would do well and would not need to be sent to special needs school) Well sadly i did not notice Martin had issues as well. The only thing I noticed was that he suddenly stopped eating aged 18 months but I did not want to make an issue out of it as my granmother always force fead me and it was very traumatic for me, did not want that with Martin. Martin would eat but only plain food. Then in his early twenties after experiencing a breakdown at university he would go through the autism'/Aspergers diagnosis process. So now i am realising that both my sons are on the autistic spectrum and am always keen to learn more and of ways how best i can support them. So yes it will be an eye opener Martin talking to you as he would not open up even to me about how Asperger;s is affecting him. But once in Prague there was a checkout for people with hidden disabilities, he said that was him.
@@martinaroe3270 it can be hard to recognise and identify as it can manifest in so many different ways. My partner works supporting people with special education needs so knows about how the diagnosis process can be quite messy especially when there is cross over in traits with different conditions. I'm sure there are many who go through their lives undiagnosed too. Just going through the footage we took this weekend so hoping to get it out there in the next week
Great to have have you both! An amazing achievement to finish and great to relive those climbs and downhills 🫣
Thanks for having us out there Benny and great achievement to you too 🎉
Amazing effort, congratulations to both of you!
Thanks Kim 🙏
One of the best videos! Love it.
Well done to you, Carla and Steven. 👊🏻💚
Thanks Darren! Hope all's going good with you 💚
Absolutely breathtaking Ben , but it looked absolutely brutal lol! Massive congratulations to you and Carla. What a fantastic achievement. Nice to see you with Dennis(i think) ....at the end and hearing his story about his sensor/glucose. Was that the same guy with the insulin pump at the suspension bridge? The reason I ask is our little Zac is going onto a pump and I love to show him that it won't hold him back from what he wants to do in life. Well done again and epic presentation as always buddy.
Thanks so much Stephen. It certainly was a mixture of beautiful and brutal 😅 The guy by the bridge with the insulin pump was someone else, not Dennis. Any big ultra I've done I have always seen several people with a glucose monitor or pump so Zac needn't worry. Loads of amazing diabetic athletes out there doing crazy things! You might want to check out Marcus Kjellberg too. He does a lot of ultras and often talks about his diabetes and managing this during races. Thanks for watching mate 🙏
@timeonfeet oh thanks for this, mate 👍. I'll do just that. 💯. Hope the recovery is going well 🙏
You and Carla did amazingly well! Congratulations. I was out on the 160k course, but sadly ended my race at Binn aid station (which was just over 100km in for me with 7000m of accumulated elevation). Post race I'm disappointed I didn't continue on. It was a psychological loss for me that day. I'm pretty sure I'll be back to take it on again.
Thanks! And well done to you for taking on such an epic challenge and still getting a big run and lots of climbing out of it. I met a few 160k runners out on the course and I know how much you all had to battle, finish or DNF, so big respect 🙌
@@timeonfeet thank you! It was great seeing a bit of the remaining course I would have tackled after Binn in this video. Definitely has given me the impetus to go back and finish now!
Congratulations! Another great adventure for you both.
The 160k next?!
Thanks Geoffrey! It's tempting 😅
2.20 and 17.25 i can see me !!! woop woop ;-)
😀 Hope you had a good race out there!
Wow what a video and congratulations on your achievement! I’m seriously debating registering next week for next year, would you say a 100k is achievable as a first ultra? Love the video!
Thanks Sam! Great to hear you're considering signing up, it's an amazing event. For a first ultra this 100k would be a punchy option! Unless maybe you have a lot of mountain running or walking experiencing. Mountains/elevation really changes everything so important to consider that when choosing a race not just the distance. The Swiss Alps 100k was harder than a hilly 100 miler I did in the UK last year so that might give an idea of the mountain factor! There's also a 50k option for the Swiss Alps which actually has all the best parts of the 100k course. Whatever you decide to go for hope the trianing goes well and you'll love it out there, a really special place to run
@@timeonfeet Ah thanks for the reply man! I'm a relatively experienced runner - 1500+ k's this year but as you say elevation is the killer! I'll have to sit on the decision over the week, Subscribed to the channel :)