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I live in a city. A pretty flat city. I run marathons and train along straight river paths. Yet, for some unknown reason, I have signed up for not one but four mountain runs over the next six months, including two in the Alps.
I tried this once before. My debut in mountain racing was in 2022 at the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc’s ‘baby’ race in