Ultra Tour Monte Rosa (UTMR) Race Report

The pre-race picture. I look happier now than I will be later. This year my occasional [1] training partner Chris Wood was selected in the UTMB lottery and asked me to come over to Chamonix and crew him. Europe is a long way to go and not race, so I looked around and finally settled on Ultra Tour Monte Rosa (UTMR) as my "A" race. UTMR is conceptually similar to UTMB in that it's a 170K tour around a mountain in the Alps but it's about 10% more climbing than UTMB and considerably more technical, so times are