It took Kristina 31 hours, 5 minutes and 40 seconds to run 255 km across the Namibian desert.
Kristina describes the Desert Ultra as the most brutal roller coaster ride, she has ever been on.
With an overall win on day one and two Kristina had almost an hour down to the nearest man, she knew she wanted to go for the overall win.
On day three Kristina had a bid of a struggle due to sickness with vomiting and nausea which turned the situation upside down. Kristina had to admit that racing and being sick is the hardest thing she had to do. But what option did she have??
The trip up and down does not end here, as on day 4 she makes an idiotic strategy that really backfires. She choose to race all out to tire the guys out and thus extinguish hope, but she ends up extinguishing herself.
Day 5 ends with 92 km, of which the first approx. 16 k is in soft sand and with sandbanks. She is behind from the start, but catch up with all participants except Jack at the front. At checkpoint 6 she receive the message that she is half an hour ahead in the overall field and she finds all the last strength and run the 11k from CP 6 to 7 as fast as she can.
A few minutes before CP 7 comes the death blow:
We have calculated incorrectly - you are a total of 10 minutes behind. Can she pick up the pace once more.
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10 сен 2024
