Day 1

Woke up at 6am and I was running at 7am. And that was a good idea given the hell which was in the afternoon.

First was a pretty easy climb to col de serrene, about 2000m.

Then steep descent and a bit of accent to la Besse. Very nice small village in mountains.

Then up the plateaux d'emparis. It started to be really hot and at the top i was pretty much done. Horrible, first crisis. But still smiling, a bit of a fake.

I took a bit of the rest (1.5hr) going that i get better. I did not though and the first hill was a tough one. It was really hot by that time, but views of La Meige were awesome!

Then was steep descent to la Grave and I had to cool my head at pretty much every fountain i passed. Hell on the earth. In la Grave I made it straight to the grocery store to get coke, hoping it'll get better. I did not and I felt pretty bad. But then, following Marta's tip, i got couple of beers and that was like magic! I was back in game.

I could afterwards still run another 8km to the nice camping spot. And that's all for today. I could have gone further but i should take it easy at the beginning.

 

Statistics: 41km, about 2km up, 7hr25min moving time, 6000 burned calories. I could have more beers no problem...