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Relais de Pentecôte, smoky races!

This weekend we raced the Pentecost relay, which is maybe the most traditional relay in Switzerland. It is a 7 leg relay. The format of the race is that the two first legs take part during the night of Saturday (start at 21:00), than the 5 morning runners take over…
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with the start around 8 o?clock.The race is always situated in the most hidden places of Switzerland, where only the basic supplies are provided? water. Every club builds its tent camp around a fire? and with 90 teams, this gives a lot of fires. All the cooking is made on the fire? at least for the real Pentecost relay runners? and the main meal is of course steaks and sausages.So, besides that the race was situated at an honorable 1700m, hypoxia was trained thanks to the tons of CO liters inhaled before the race.But fortunately the first half of the…

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