At 6pm on 30th August 2024, along with 2500 other runners (including husband Percy), Anna will take the start-line of the UTMB for 176km of trail running that includes almost 10,000m of vertical gain. If you'd like to give her some moral support, you're in the right place!

The idea is to sprinkle some supportive messages into the different playlists that she uses at different points in the race, so that you can be with her on this epic journey around the Mont Blanc, even in the early hours of the morning when there's no-one around to hear her ragged breathing and encourage her to keep moving!

You can give as little or as much input as you wish - your text and/or audio clips will be sorted and collated in time for the race (but she won't get to hear any recorded messages until the race begins!)

Let's get started...

Here are Anna's objectives for the race, in decreasing order of feasibility...

1. Finish. Complete the 176km course within the maximum 46.5 hours.

2. Run faster than she did over 100km of CCC last year (5kmph), ie finish in less than 35 hours

3. Finish by midnight on Saturday night, ie in 30 hours - she has spent a year training hard with this pace in mind, yet it remains an incredibly difficult feat to achieve.