Rory Bosio Doesn't Really Train - Outside Magazine
When Rory Bosio, a 29-year-old pediatric intensive-care nurse from Truckee, California, lined up at the start of Chamonix's Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in August 2013, she didn't expect to win. She had finished fourth in the women’s division the year before, on a snow-shortened 62-mile course. She had never won a major race, and to the small but tough field of women starting in 2013—like Catalonians Núria Picas and Emma Roca , top finishers in the Skyrunner World Series and the Marathon des Sables , respectively—Bosio was all but unknown. A 104-mile loop that circumnavigates the 15,771-foot Mont Blanc massif, passing through France, Italy, and Switzerland, the route requires ten climbs that total some 31,500 vertical feet. Top times are just over 20 hours, but around half of the 2,300 racers don’t finish at all. The year he did finish, 2011, it took him 40 hours and required him to wrap a ziplock bag around his testicles to guard against chafing. At mile 20, Bosio was in about 100th place, but by the midway point she had reeled in all the women and most of the men. At last she came striding through Chamonix, wearing a mud-stained shirt and the North Face’s Eat My Dust running skirt, the streets bracketed with a cheering crowd, like a stage finish at the Tour de. Source: www.outsideonline.com
