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Pinoy Ultra Runners at Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc

Last August 29, Pinoy Ultra Runners Dr. Peter Rivera, Joselyn Saw, and Simon Sandoval joined The North Face Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) – Sur les Traces des Ducs de Savoie (TDS).

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- Can you spot the Philippine flag? -

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- Doc Peter and Simon during the send-off - 

The website www.trailrunningsoul.com describes the UTMB-TDS this way:

Sur les Traces des Ducs de Savoie: approx. 105km and 6700m + altitude change. Start Saturday 29th august at 5:00am from the centre of Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France.

Cross-country race following the paths of the Grande Randonnée of Mont-Blanc country and Beaufortain. Mountain event, including many high altitude passages (>2500m), in climate conditions which could be very tough (night, wind, cold, rain or snow), necessitating some very good training, suitable equipment and a real capacity for personal autonomy.

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– UTMB runners -

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– Knife Ridge to Aiguille Croche -

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– Dr. Peter Rivera -

The three brave ultra runners gave it their best, but it was Simon Sandoval that finished the race unscathed.  I heard without even a blister!  (I’ll try to get Simon for a TBR Interview just to confirm)

I’ll allow Doc Peter to share with you his own account of the race (as typing out the race name was already exhausting for me!)  Click here to read all about it.

More photos here.

Congratulations to the Doc Peter, Josaw, and Simon!  The view from up there was amazing!

* Photos courtesy of Dr. Peter Rivera.  Thanks to Neville Manaois for sharing.

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11 Responses to “Pinoy Ultra Runners at Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc”

  1. awed!

    mikey said on Sep 15 09 at 3:23 PM Reply

  2. Congrats!

    Totoy Bato said on Sep 15 09 at 7:58 PM Reply

  3. Awesome!

    Paolo said on Sep 15 09 at 9:22 PM Reply

  4. Doc Peter, to be in the starting line of a 166km race..thousands of miles away from your home? in freezing temps? and the view of that race…sweet victory…

    mond said on Sep 15 09 at 11:55 PM Reply

  5. galing ng PINOY!

    odie said on Sep 16 09 at 10:39 AM Reply

  6. !!!! inggit !!!!

    hector said on Sep 16 09 at 1:11 PM Reply

  7. Amazing. Hardest ultra in Europe.

    rick gaston said on Sep 17 09 at 2:09 AM Reply

  8. hi TBR, i was in Chamonix last Aug 28 and saw that there were quite a few streamers and banners that look like there’s a race going on. in fact, around midday, i saw some runners that looked like they just finished a race or something (in full running regalia! :) ) … you said that this ultra event was on aug 29, so was there a run day before?

    congratulations to the pinoy participants!!

    dennis said on Sep 18 09 at 12:53 PM Reply

  9. Hi Dennis,
    there are actually four running events that make up the Ulta Trail du Mont Blanc – they have a staggered start for them to all end on the same day – Sunday. The longest one (PTL, 245km) started on 25th, CCC on the 28th, UTMB (28th) and TDS (29th). You probably saw the UTMB runners on the afternoon of the 28th.

    Simon said on Sep 18 09 at 2:53 PM Reply

  10. hi simon! thanks for the info.

    Chamonix’s breathtaking! but that’s nothing compared to what you’ve achieved there! congratulations again!

    dennis said on Sep 19 09 at 3:42 AM Reply

  11. Thanks :) My write-up can be found here
    http://www.sandoval.bz/Simon/TDS_-_1.html

    Simon said on Oct 09 09 at 1:20 PM Reply

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