While kiwi Vajin Armstrong was charging around the this past weekend at the Swiss Alpine Marathon a little further back in the field was New Zealand’s favourite English Mountain Runner, and 2X winner of the ShotoverMoonlight Marathon- Martin Cox. Martin is always good for a colourful tale, and does not disappoint-
Martin pre muesli bars. Photo: Prasasta Armstrong
Hey grant, Vajin is taking all day to write his race report, so I thought I’d write a quick one for you in the style of Rickey Gates who sends his love, he being my previous house guest.
“First I felt awesome and then I felt just okay and then I felt pretty average and then I got to 42km and still there weren’t any gels at the aid stations and I began to hallucinate and then a small German boy passed me and then the first lady runner passed me and then this old guy I knew from a past life in South Tyrol passed me and then I walked for 8km disconsolately up a road that wasn’t very steep at all really and then I came to small village shop and then I walked in and walked out with two boxes of muesli bars and then I came to another gel-less aid station and then I thought bugger this for a game of soldiers and sat down for 30 minutes and drank two litres of coke and ate the stolen muesli bars and had a short nap and drank another litre of coke and ate some green bananas and then I felt awesome again and ran like the wind over two passes wee wee wee all the way home”
footnote: the small German boy was Stephan Hugenschmidt who is my new partner for the Transalpine run in 3o days time as my original partner has pulled out… and I ran in Hokas and my legs feel great!!!
Keep an eye out for Vajin’s race report in the next day or 2.
Stephan
August 1, 2013
Looking forward to the Transalpine Run.
Greets from the small German boy