Hurt2Help are running the TransAlpineRun 2010!

This September our husband and wife team will retrace the footsteps of Hannibal:

296km - 8 Days - 17700m Ascent - Across Germany, Austria and Italy.

All in aid of Facing Africa, a little-known British charity concerned with the prevention and cure of the merciless disease Noma.

Their surgical rehabilitation of survivors is heartbreakingly wonderful and more than worthy of buckets of our sweat in the hope of filling buckets with your donations!

We are Shelley and Gav Phillips. Follow our journey ..

Monday, 6 September 2010

3rd Stage - Kitzbuhel – Neukirchen 46.9km - Across the top of the world!

9:06.50hr (55)



We follow the route to the top of the world famous, and ridiculously steep, Kitzbuhel downhill slope. Even without its usual silken snow attire the Hahnenkamm is frightening.

A brief glance as we forge ahead .. this isn’t even the top of our first climb today ..


Wow!
The true joy of the stage comes at over 2000 metres and what feels like a skip across the top of the world.

Sun shining.

Snow glistening.

Trit-trotting along the tufted, snow strewn ridge line is a delight. And would you believe there were even people up there to clap us along?




A gigglingly good day really finished with a speed descent as we flow down to Neukirchen .. just one wrong turn .. eek!



PS Oooo .. blister care .. thank you Ange for all the training .. just wish you were there to do it for me!!
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