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The trail in Belgium is my next one. It’s through the beautiful landscapes of belgium. I hope it will not rain, since it’s quite cold there already. So the forcast changes quite often from 80% raining chance to 10% rain. But with only 4 degrees over the day and -2 in the night. Let’s see how it will work out on sunday.

See the link at http://www.courirpourleplaisir.be/html/v_3/p_1.html for registering to this trail. It will be about 69km and 2100 meters in height. So its long but not so hilly. It will be in a part of Belgium i know quite well from my time in aachen, germany. I have been there very often by racing bike throught the belgian landscape (ardennen). It’s near Lüttich (Liege) and Maastricht. The trail will go to SPA, i think most people know this town from the formula one races. I will be happy that day to go by feet. 🙂 The race startet about 10 years ago and nowadays there are about 300-400 participants.

It starts at “Hall Omnisport à Froidbermont (Olne)” on the 25.11.2012 in olne at 8 o’clock. Costs are 10 euro only. That sounds really great. Every 16 km there is a point with supplys.

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Seems like the weather will be slightly rainy. We will start at 6 o’clock. And then i have about 20 hours for the whole 82 km. The race starts at about 250m above sealevel and goes up to 1000m. So if you have 15 degress at lousa, you might have about 10 degress at 1000m. I will take some protective sleeves with me and a nice vest. In the morning you might need also a cap and some gloves.

I will test the Saucony Xodus 3.0 during the race for the first time.

I hope they are doing well. They are without GoreTex and have a very small offset (4mm) and are pretty light. I use the ProGrid as running shoes and feel quite well with them for a long time now.

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Hi,

i will do the ULTRA TRAIL ALDEIAS DO XISTO this month on the 10th of november in Lousa. I have already booked the trail and i’m looking forward to do the 82 km run and the 5000 meters in height. It gives you 3 points for the UTMB. Seems like Lousa has a very nice landscape and the weather will be probable about 15-17 degrees during the day.

The run will start at 6 o’clock and i will have 20 hours altogether.

The kml for gps devices you can convert at gpsies.com into the format you would like. Here is the file from the homepage:  GPS KML

Here the list of inventories you will have to cary:

• Backpack
• Coat or Raincoat
• Thermal blanket
• Headlamp and replacment batteries
• Watertank with minimum 1 liters
• cup with minimum 15cl capacity
• food reserve
• mobile
• whistle
• back light red
• pins for dorsal

This is recommended:

• gloves
• treking poles
• trousers at least covering your knees
• clothings for you stop
• money

You can check in until 21 o’clock in Lousa.

Currently i train about 50 km per week. I have done a 10km run at the 21.10. within 46:10 minutes and look motivated forward to take the trail.