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Why do you run? 

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Trofeo Kima 2016 - The Debrief

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Natural running with Scott Cole, BTR certified coach.

We’re going to pick Scott’s brains next week. 

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The opening of Passo San Marco 2016 celebrated with the marmots, the 88-year-old who hitchhiked a lift back down the mountain, the fruit loaf and the incredibly exciting new trails. 

She was stood by the side of the road about 5km before than the summit, laden down with a plastic bag of leaves. Every two days she follows the trails up to her cabin, tends to the garden and fills her handbag with logs before returning to the village below, usually going by road in the hope that someone will stop. As of yesterday, the chances are higher. The pass just opened. 

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Well that was the cross country running season. With the title of Italian National Champion decided, there are only a select few who will be looking forward to the World Championships. The rest of us will hang up our spikes and think about our season to come, on the track, the roads, or in the mountains. 

But in just a few short months we will once more be stamping our feet and blowing on cold fingers, waiting for the starter’s gun to remind us of the enjoyable pain that is cross country. 

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Why go warm for winter when you can go to Hungary?

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Saying good bye to the working week and hello to the freedom of the weekend. It’s arguably the perfect playground as the sun sets over the Italian Alps.

What are you doing this weekend? We’re getting outside to hunt for new trails, new views and new perspectives. 

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The initial ease of the fast start takes its toll on the body as you realise that cross country is about starting hard and finishing harder. Controlling the dialogue is key, stopping your body’s cry to ease back with your mind focused on the finish. Hard? Yes. Fast? Yes. It is these moments in the cold that set the foundations for the season ahead. 

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The season of cross-country: of standing around stamping your feet to keep warm, of blowing on your fingers to keep the circulation going, of rasping breaths and frozen ground, destroyed by tractors and cemented into place by the below-zero temperatures. 

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The celebration of Saint Sylvestre for runners. Closing the year with the final race. The countdown from 10 to 1 is the same, but it is what happens after that, which differs. For those at a Silvesterlauf it is the crack of a gun that marks the start of their competition, on the most raced day of the year. 

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The beginning of a New Year and the first snow of the winter. Time to wrap up and embrace the rich tapestry that this season has woven in the mountains.