Today's stage was a 43 km run with 1900 meters of climbing, and 1000 meters of descending in the rain. Not just rain. It was pouring. The whole night, and the whole run. For this reason, they had to shorten the stage by a kilometer and take out the climbing to the ridgeline. It was too bad, but we wouldn't have been able to see anything from the clouds anyhow.
We left Schruns and headed to Galtur at 9am. We set out at a comfortable pace and were surprised at how much of the first 10km was runnable! My legs were stiff after yesterday's 54km, but loosened up within an hour:)
We were steady and feeling good in the rain- wearing our icebreaker shorts and shirts, we were the perfect temperature until hitting 2300 meters and have to put our toques, gloves, sleeves and vests on! Couldn't believe how well the icebreaker merino insulated!! We were the only runners we saw with shorts and short sleeves out there!! After the 2nd aid station, things got muddy and technical and 2 Canadian Girls on the Run put on their party runners and had a blast through that section!!! We passed close to a couple of dozen teams, all the while giggling and laughing.....so much fun!!! After the bog section, we had a steep climb up to the 3rd aid station and started the steep 12 km descent in Galtur. This section was also really fun and had some good technical sections. We didn't want to push too hard on this descent as we didn't want to blow up our quads, as we knew stage 4 was going to be tough.It is beautiful running into these small towns nestled in between the mountains, what an amazing view and so much fun that the whole town gets out and supports this race!!
All in all, we had a great day in the rain!!! Our best day, and I didn't take any pictures. I didn't want to risk breaking my camera with all the rain. Getting ready to run to Switzerland tomorrow- so excited!!!!
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