FKT: Jamie Obier - Diemelsteig (Germany) - 2021-01-13

Two weeks ago, or so, I had the brilliant idea to run the 63k ~2000D+ "Diemelsteig", right after my 10k test two days before. I know I promised I won't run an ultra, before I got more speed on shorter distances. My mind was changing, not because covid-19, but bc I'll have a planned surgery next week. So, all what I did, I did because of fun and for test, if I still have this ultra spirit.

Early in the morning Georg and I drove to the Diemelsteig. Mori was so nervous, she doesn't wanted her food ? It was very cold and windy. The first K's were all uphill and I had the feeling, this would be the easiest part.

It turns out that we had to arrange us with very deep snow, ice, frozen surfaces and maybe 2% flat surface and a storm that reminded me on siberian expeditions, which came from the front and side but never from behind. Mori wasn't able to move forward, bc she was blown away from the wind.

BUT our spirits were high, the challenge was accepted from the beginning, I was trying to step in Georg's footprints, while my little dog Mori was so smart to run or go in my slipstream. It also occurred that we had to hold our hands.

I did ~30 Ultras, but this was one of the hardest. Sometimes it's not the distance, it's the condition. To move on runable trails for 100k oder more, without worrying about cold and energy isn't comparable.

We never have eaten so much! I ate 2 big fruit bars, nuts,1 clif gum bar, 2 giant lye braids. I also have stolen a bit of Georgs drinks, bc I've got cravings of cola ? It turns out it was high five, with so much caffeine that my body decides to start dizzyness and sweating for a time.

I laughed it all away, my coccyx (tailbone) have hurt a bit too much, Mori seemed a bit slower and Georg told me after 45k "finally my legs started working!"?

In the end we had maybe 15mins sun, all summed up. So I screamed: "Suuun!", and right in this moment my body was hitting the ground. My knees weren't amused, but the show had to be going on ?

It was way harder than expected, but I'm so proud of all of us, but especially about my 10kg dog Mori who smashed her longest distance since her 50k two years ago in summer. 

We definetly want to come back, when the coditions are made for softies for doing a serious time on this FKT :D