Canadian Death Race 2008

Last summer Micha ran the Canadian Death Race in Grande Cache, Alberta. It's taken a bit of time for him to write his impressions and for me to edit them, but here they are. Make yourself a cup of coffee and get comfortable, because he goes into quite a bit of detail. We found woefully little information on the death race during his preparations, so we hope this post will answer some questions, but if you have any questions about the race and about Micha's experience, leave a comment and we'll get back to you. What's up next? Well, he just finished the Rennsteiglauf super-marathon in Thuringen this weekend and is training for the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in Chamonix, taking place at the end of August 2009.

"Always on the long weekend in August"
Canadian Death Race, Alberta, Canada

Hmm… Running... I've been able to do that for quite a while. At the very least, it's made my parent's apartment unsafe since I was two years old.

But ultra runners have seemed special ever since I first read about them. Some of the more well-known names are featured again and again in articles and I've always asked myself how they manage to do it. How can you run further than a marathon, which for a regular person is already an incredible achievement? How can you train for something like that?

I already found the training I did in 2003 in anticipation of an Ironman race to be very hard work, but at least I had the opportunity to cross-train between the three disciplines. Running 100 kilometers or more, however, which takes about as long as an Ironman, is nothing but running.