TOKEN BLOKE
© MATT BROWN/INOV-8
For the second year in a row, I took my wife and two children (aged six and three) to Chamonix, France, for a week, on the pretence it was a family holiday. The week coincided – oh look! – with the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB), a 105-mile mountain ultra I’ve been obsessed with since first doing it in 2015. This would be my third attempt at UTMB, heralded this year by influential US website irunfar.com as, ‘The strongest line-up ever assembled for a trail ultramarathon’.