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UTMB: Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc

It is a trail race of 176 km of running through mountains with a total elevation of 10,000 metres. The race road is a circle surrounding the highest mountain of Europe, Mont-Blanc, and is passing through three countries (🇫🇷, 🇮🇹 and🇨🇭). This circle is completed on average in 38 hours however the top racers had completed it within 20 hours. This means that the winner had an average of 9km per hour, most of people in the world wouldn’t able to hold this speed for 5 kilometres.

Each year around 10,000 runners are allowed to run. The polish runner that we supported was holding the position near to 300 till the 17th out of 20 stop points due to experiencing of a painful injury. Later after receiving help with the wound he had an instant improvement as till the end he overtook additional 80 runners and ended the race qualifying in the top 250th places

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