Anyone familiar with the Ice Ultra run in northern Sweden ?
Its pretty easy, you just run 230 KM / 143 miles in snow and what ever conditions above the arctic circle, and trust me even with global warming northern Sweden are no fun these days.
Needless to say much of the race you run in snow shoes,,,,, race shoes of course but still.
Anyway. A little Danish girl just won it, in front of god know how many men and other women.
Actually she ran so fast that the people arranging the race did not account for it, so markings at the end and the finish line was not even set up, so she ran past it, and kept going until someone caught up to her in a snowmobile with her gold medal.
That ! is 100 % bad ass shield maiden stuff right there.
And BTW the last 6 km of the race was covered while wet to the waist and in 2 digit ( deg C ) negative temperatures, as she went thru the ice.
Bu then there actually was a guy with her ( the #2 place winner ) but apparently he was not able to keep up on the last leg.