UTMB - What else?
Albert Einstein
«The UTMB® is the most incredible trail-running event! An essential event for trail-runners from all over the world. Each year, the best athletes meet in Chamonix and almost 10000 runners participate in one of the event's 7 races.
Running around Mont-Blanc is above all an inner adventure, a unique experience where each participant has to rely on their strength and push their mental and physical limits to cross the finish line. This extraordinary journey in the heart of the range allows runners to cross valleys and ridges in a unique alpine environment.
To participate or attend the UTMB® is to connect to the trail running world and share an extraordinary celebration in the heart of an amazing territory. 2000 volunteers from 15 countries and 18 French, Italian and Swiss municipalities of the Mont-Blanc region are working to ensure the success of the event and support the UTMB® runners. 20 000 supporters are coming to cheer on their loved ones and more than 50,000 spectators visit the show and take part in the activities in all the villages of the Pays du Mont-Blanc.»
https://utmbmontblanc.com/en/page/1/event.html
«A primeira vez que abordei o tema da preparação para o UTMB foi neste post, faz hoje precisamente 3 anos. Desde então já muita água passou debaixo dos moinhos.
Candidatei-me dois anos consecutivos apenas para ver as minha expetativas goradas pela má sorte no sorteio.
Para quem não conhece as regras, o UTMB será provavelmente a prova de Trail mais cobiçada do mundo, com uma quantidade de candidatos muito superior ao número de lugares disponíveis (2300).
Esta prova é vista como uma espécie de "Jogos Olímpicos do Trail" onde se degladiam os nomes mais sonantes da elite mundial e onde o pelotão quer estar presente em peso.
Para dar vazão à enorme procura, a organização criou um sistema de seleção em que é necessário pontuar para poder fazer a candidatura a um lugar na prova:
Registration to UTMB® is only allowed to competitors who have already had an experience and who can prove it. To enrol for the UTMB® 2015, you need to have acquired a minimum of 8 points by having completed, between 2013/01/01 and 2014/12/31 exclusively, races included in this list. The 8 points have to be acquired with 3 races maximum.This race is limited to 2300 competitors.
No entanto, apesar deste sistema, ainda existe um número muito elevado de candidatos que superam esta primeira barreira. É feito um sorteio anual pelas vagas existentes. Quem falha o sorteio, no ano seguinte tem uma ponderação de 2x e portanto o dobro das probabilidades de ser sorteado. À terceira tentativa a entrada é garantida.
Foi precisamente isso que me aconteceu.»
«The opening of registration is undeniably one of the most thrilling moments of each new edition of the UTMB® Mont-Blanc. The enthusiasm for the UTMB® races has grown so much over the years that the UTMB® organization had to create in 2008 an entry process governed by a system of qualifying points and a lottery. For those runners who gain entry into the races, this moment marks the beginning of the adventure.»
Key figures to better understand the lottery.
UTMB® 195% sold out - 4 486 applicants
CCC® 301% sold out – 5728 applicants
OCC 484% sold out - 5812 applicants
TDS® 138% sold out - 2200 applicants
PTL® registration upon presentation of a file – 280 applications
MCC 100% sold out
As of 2023, the UTMB® World Series Finals (UTMB®, CCC® and OCC) will be exclusively open to:
- Runners eligible to enter the lottery
- Eligible elite runners
- Runners with priority
Runners wishing to enter the UTMB® World Series Finals (UTMB®, CCC®,
OCC) have to go through the lottery. To enter the lottery, they need to:
- Have at least one Running Stone acquired in the previous two years
AND
- Have a valid UTMB® Index in the category corresponding to the Final
RUNNING STONES
A Running Stone provides one entry in the lottery to participate in the UTMB® World Series Finals. You can collect Running Stones by finishing a 20K, 50K, 100K or 100M race of the UTMB® World Series circuit. Running Stones are recorded on your runner’s account and each Running Stone improves your odds in the lottery.
For example, if you have 9 Running Stones, your name appears 9 times in the lottery, thus tripling your odds in the lottery vs someone who only has 3 Running Stones
Find the list of the UTMB® World Series 2022 races here.
Running Stones can only be used to enter one UTMB® World Series Finals lottery per year.
If you are selected via the lottery, the Running Stones disappear from your stock.
If you are not selected, you keep your Running Stones to use for the next edition.
Running Stones don’t expire (unless you use them to enter the lottery and you are selected). However, you need to collect at least 1 Running Stone in the 2 years preceding the lottery.
Neste momento o meu Index é calculado por uma média ponderada das provas que fiz nos últimos 36 meses, que no meu caso foram apenas duas provas de 100 milhas, o Estrelaçor e o Transpeneda-Gerês, daí apenas ter índice nas 100 milhas:
Eis aqui a totalidade das minhas provas que constam na Base de Dados da ITRA:
Nota-se bem que o UTMB em 2015 me deixou muito desgastado, como se pode ver na evolução do índice e no meu post:
http://dorsal1967.blogspot.com/2015/09/ultra-trail-du-mont-blanc-uma-odisseia_6.html
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Tenho que voltar a fazer uma preparação muito mais regrada como descrevo neste post de 2014:
https://dorsal1967.blogspot.com/2015/03/o-ultra-trail-uma-paixao.html
E vou ter que completar pelo menos uma running stone, pois neste momento não tenho nenhuma.
E estudar novamente o percurso e delinear uma estratégia:
https://www.compressport.com/inter/en/community/utmb-2019-course-recognition-with-pro-athletes-n124
2022 HIGHLIGHTS
This year’s UTMB men’s race was billed as a likely showdown between two of the greats in men’s ultrarunning, Jim Walmsley (pre-race interview) and Kilian Jornet, with predictions that whoever came out ahead would also hold a new course record. And while it initially seemed that the race would play out as expected, with Walmsley and Jornet trading blows for the first 142 kilometers, it would be Mathieu Blanchard (post-race interview) who made the final attempt to dethrone Jornet. But it was not to be, with Jornet breaking both previous course records, by a significant margin, in a time of 19:49:30.
The women’s side of the 2022 UTMB had an openness that perhaps fans had not felt in years. With no previous champions or clear favorites on the starting line, instead, we all ruminated about the 10 or 12 women with the potential to win or challenge for it. Even then, we all also noticed the deepening women’s field year over year, with this one likely requiring getting to the finish line quicker than was previously normal to secure a top-10 finish. From the start line, Katie Schide (pre– and post-race interviews) led aggressively, only relinquishing the lead for a handful of kilometers around daybreak during a rough patch, before getting her stomach under control and finishing with a time of 23:15:12 way in front of the rest of the field.
https://www.irunfar.com/2022-utmb-results
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