Olympic Grand Loop (Deer Park Loop)

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) . 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 substantially more technical, so the finish times are around 20% slower. I ran UTMB back in 2022 and finished in 37:49