Alpe Adria Trail Virtual Challenge, Weekend #2

Sunday, April 19th 2020, 7:30 PM. Part 2 of the Alpe Adria Trail Cup Virtual Challenge begins.

As with the challenge on the previous weekend the running goal is to climb as high as possible. With an addition of required distance.

Here are the goals and the medals awarded.

Medal	Goal
Bronze	10 km run with 250 meters of total climb
Silver	20 km run with 500 meters of total climb
Gold	30 km run with 1,000 meters of total climb

Guess which goal did I pick to be my challenge?

Correct - go for gold!

This is the result:

Can you see the seesaw pattern in the first third of the profile? I was climbing every little peak three times from different directions. It was easier to collect over 1,000 meters of vertical climb that to gather the required distance of 30 kilometers.

In fact, the last 5 kilometers, all downhill on tarmac and asphalt, were the hardest.

The map of the run, more a hike, as seen in the Coros Pace watch app.

The same map from Strava.

Again, as with the last weekend the weather was beautiful, Sunny, warm, even hot in the end. Especially in the first two hours when the birds we singing loudly and there were no other hikers it was a pure poetry.

I hope that these photos can bring you the joy that I was lucky to experience this morning.

Cut down or fallen trees at the start of the journey