The race is scheduled.....
The race is approaching and I'm ready!
I 'm at my best of my potential.
I'm ready to defeat this beast of a race..... ready to go and conquer the adventure!
Than I woke up! I was NOT ready.... like at all! OMG!
The thing with the whole 2025 was that I decided, as the year before, to devote a huge amount of my time that I usually use for my training and races to my family. We created many projects on our property, and I really needed a bit of that "time off" from training to invest myself into something else. At the same time, after the Kullamannen race in 2024 an odd pain in my right foot developed in a nightmare of pain that made my training during the whole 2025 an enormous challenge. The races before this race were just a few during the whole 2025, and during the last adventure the right foot was absolutely not an issue... it was something else. Feel free to read that article by clicking the link below:
https://sasinka.se/running/race-reports/376-the-adamello-ultra-trail-170-race-the-story-of-a-real-adventure
During the whole August month and partially September I got close to the needed volume that made me feel positive that I could actually deal with a 100 mile race. Not to race it properly, but to reach the finish line.... nothing else.
I managed to finish the Adamello Trail in almost 49h which is by far the longest time I was out there fighting with my demons. I would really love to avoid that this time.-
I finished the Kullamannen race in 2024 in ca. 28h. I would really love to finish it a bit faster this year. Still, the course is a bit changed and my form "not in a good place".
I am well aware that I had no proper training during the whole 2025, and this adventure of mine will most definitely result in:
- hurting a lot
- it's going to be a long day out there
- I am going to power hike a huge part of the race
- I need to get ready for a huge mental battle and deal with my lovely demons.
Why the suffering? Well.... during such moments the whole existence is very simple. Everything is so easy and simple and it's called pure survival and moving forward towards a goal. Every step is a lovely endurance moment in its simplicity of movement, nutrition and dealing with the issues of that particular moment. Nothing more and nothing else. Just me, myself and I in the middle of somewhere. The nature can be lovely, inspiring, amazing and emotional but at the same time it can break you, stripe away your ego and make you miserable. Simple rules matter, and the game is so interesting that despite all, even such a races such Kullamannen is, might be really "lovely" in its simplicity, complicated and tough at the same time, really tough as well and other times things can go smoothly like a dream. But if things get hard, usually the toughest part is not the physical one.... but the mental game. Kullamannen can break one... easily!
These are the control points during the race and these are going to be the time limits to beat for this year because I'm afraid that I will be forced to battle just to manage the cut off time in the below list:
I will be there, at the start of the race - tomorrow the 31th of October at 18:00 CET. Feel free to follow my race via the below link:
https://live.utmb.world/en/kullamannen/2025/runners/218
Kind Regards,
Aramis
MORE Information about the race:
» https://kullamannen.utmb.world/races/ultra-100-miles
