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How would you train differently?
We asked the competitors in the feedback form how they would have trained differently for this stage race. Here’s a summary of what they said: More hills! The main feedback was more hill training,...
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Post race add on!
Who is interested to join a recce fastpack starting when the (other) Manaslu trail participants drive out from Tilje to Besisahar? Yes you miss out on immediate post event urban creature comforts,...
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Why participate in a multi-stage race?
Some years back I bored the handful of readers that my now defunct personal blog had acquired with random walks through the conceptual space of this slippery thing called running. As it turns out, no...
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[interview] Is this race for you? Participant Virginia Bird gives her view.
With huge mountains left and right, talk of ‘thin air’ and remoteness, a many people are hesitant about considering participating in the Manaslu Trail Race. In order to help you gauge the standard of...
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Why run the Manaslu Trail Race?
Here Roger Henke offers his views on why this race is special among all the other stage trail races in the world! Roger Henke was formerly Director of the renowned Summit Hotel in Kathmandu and its...
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[article] Mountain of the Spirit
Reposted from a feature in Sidetracked Magazine. Written by Lily Dyu. Published July 25, 2016. At 4,000m, the sun was penetrating, loosening rock and ice. Gleaming chains of peaks ran in every...
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Ultrarunning Himalaya: 9 days of pain at the Manaslu Trail Race
Reposted from a report by Nina Koch, a DYNAFIT Athlete, in 2018 on the Dynafit website. Don’t let this report put you off! Nina contracted a stomach bug and suffered greatly during the first four...
View ArticleWelcoming Mimmi Kotke and Ida Nilsson to the 2023 race.
The Manaslu Trail Race is always blessed with interesting people joining its start line. Despite a common interest of running, there is a diversity of experience in life that is fun to share....
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An insight into climbing Manaslu
Photography by Piotr Drzastwa Every year runners in the Manaslu Trail Race look up at Manaslu from the hotel roof in Samagaun, and consider what climbing the mountain above them must be like. We’ll...
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Why the stage 2 gpx track shows a rollercoaster
For those who’ve done the Manaslu Trail Race already, who raised their eyebrows at the elevation profile for the trail race’s second stage, from Dhoban to Deng, here is an explanation. Firstly, see...
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