The goal of eating a kilo of sugar

It is obvious that it is easier to say than it is to run 106 kilometers in one race. However, it may come as a surprise how many people need to consider.

In recent days, competitors in the Hengil Ultra race, which was launched last night, have been lying over weather forecasts and organizing how they will come about one kilogram of sugar during the race.

The first Hengill Ultra race was started at 18 in Hveragerði, when 21 competitors, who aim to run 106 kilometers in the Hengill area, launched. They ran all night and the first runner, German Felix Starker, came first in the men’s goal just before six o’clock this morning, in time 11:41:58.

From the center of Hveragerði, the road is in to Hengli, across the mountain range, down Sleggjubeinskarð and from there. However, competitors have only completed 53 kilometers and set off in another lap.

Primarily stress

Ingvar Hjartarson is one of these purse runners who are now in the Henglin, but mbl.is talked to him just before he started last night. This is the first time he has run 100 km in a competition, but he has done so before on his own for charity.

Ingvar says he has been practicing targeted exercises for the race for about three months but asked what goes through the mind just before leaving, he says it is primarily stress.

« You are thinking what clothes and equipment you have to carry with. So you have to gadget the bag that you want to leave, both in Sleggjuskarði and here, have everything done for the night, » says Ingvar, adding:

« I have a pretty decent vest with a lot of equipment. It’s a lot of compulsory equipment and requirements in the run. I have plenty of energy, fluids, characters, rainbowns and rain jackets. »

Challenge to keep your stomach good

When asked, Ingvar says he expects the biggest challenge to nourish himself and keep his stomach good.

« The goal is to eat such a kilo of sugar in a few thirteen times or so. It will be quite a challenge to eat it all and keep it down. »

But how does you come down a kilo of sugar?

« You naturally have to have a variety of nutrition, as diverse as sugar becomes. So you have to find something you want.

The weather is a concern

Hulda Elma Eysteinsdóttir and Andri Teitsson are running friends from Akureyri, but this is not the first time they run 100 kilometers.

When a journalist talked to Hulda and Andra just before the start of the race, they simply said they wanted to get to the place as soon as possible.

Asked what was at the top of the mind at this moment, the weather called the weather. « You are a little stressed about the weather, whether there would be a lot of wind and cold on the way. »

As mentioned earlier, the race was over the night but asked how to prepare the body for such a tolerance, says Hulda:

« You try to rest well and we’ve been running a little less this week than we are used to. We get well and sleep well. »

Andri Teitsson and Hulda Elma Eysteinsdóttir are not newcomers when it comes to long running.

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Run through three weather belts

But it is not just the runners themselves who have been in strict preparation. Likewise, it is a lot of work to manage a long run like this.

« Now we are mainly considering the safety issues, here we are reviewing the equipment of each one, that people have all the equipment we require that is much more equipment than the weather indicates at this moment, » says Thorir Erlingsson, president of the opposition, but a journalist spoke to him in the running.

He adds that large equipment requirements are due to the fact that the weather can be replaced.

« We never know how this is changing and it changes very quickly. The race actually runs through three weather belts, we are here in Hveragerði, so it is on Ölkelduháls where there is a little colder and worse weather and then it goes all the way up to the beard and there can be a whole other weather than we know. »

Despite this, Thorir says that the weather forecast is very good at this time. There is little wind in one section of the track, but besides that, it is dry and good conditions.