Pirin Ultra 2023 100 miles of Madness
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- A trail running documentary about a mad 160 km ultramarathon through the Bulgarian Pirin mountains. Personally the hardest 100 mile race I've ever done. I certainly did not know what I was getting into when Sam invited me to come run this beast with him. Beautiful moutains and nature, but really, really hard. Go do it, you might regret it, but you will have a great experience.
Thanks once again to all the great artists for the music!
2:10 Fingers Mitchell Cullen - Everybody Moving
6:47 Eldrvak - Transcendence
17:15 Curt Ceunen - Hanging Around
23:20 Me - Downhill in DADGAD
26:38 Eldrvak - Whispers in the Wind
37:17 Alizbar - Whispering of Stars
52:20 Eldrvak - Before the Storm
58:20 Alizbar - The Mountain Set
1:08:00 Godsleep - Breakfast
Amazing video, great work!❤
Thank you! Good luck if you're running this year!
Ok that’s 2 I’ve watched today! 😂 absolutely amazing Jan what a race! Your PMA is another level 😮👏🏼
Jan, thank you for documenting this crazy experience in such a beautiful, touching way. Your humor and positive thinking are such incredible skills.
Also wish we were still out there on Pirin, just to secretly whine a little more. Looking forward to the next one! Sam
Ah so you have been whining as well? 😄 Disqualified!!
You did great man. Love the spirit you've showed up there, great character! On to the next!
Good stuff mate! If you ever consider coming to Bulgaria again, i would recommend something even funnier - Balkan Ultra ;) . Its "only"" 75k but with 6k of elevataton gain, crossing some of the most spectacular parts of Stara Planina mountain. Cheers!
Thanks for the tip! I'll have to put it on the list since other people have mentioned it as well! maybe see you there! 😃
@@janvoorspoels Yeah, i am planning it. And btw, the best part is , its FREE (for now). Also it has some of the most challenging cut-off times in comparison to other races in Bulgaria, so just finishing it is a feat on its own (and you get a cool T-shirt :) )
@@RunningPhotographer I'm always up for free races! Wish I could quit my job and become full time runner/explorer!
So... this is 160km, +- 36 hours, and no sleeping at all? Quite mad. I especially like your cycling videos, but this is something new to me. Pretty great, unbelievable, and wonderfully captured on video. (as always!) Thanks Jan!
Hi there! No sleeping on this one... 45 hours of non stop (type 2) fun! Pirin is an extreme example of an ultramarathon. What attracts me is the same as with cycling, the adventure, getting to places on your own strenght, challenging myself to push my boundaries a bit further away... I feel the more I run these things, or cycle long trips, the more my head and the world opens up. Feels great! Happy cycling!
Nice video. Brings back memories. I was one of the other "idiots" at the starting line. Unfortunately made it to the finish two hours after cut-off time. So despite my finish the result was a dnf and no medal. Apart from lack of sufficient pace I made a navigating error in the 2nd night when I started to follow the flags from the 66k distance. This has cost me a lot of time, but I was determined to reach the finish anyhow. I am planning a revanche for 2024.
Well done for finishing man! That was hard! The cut off times seemed to get more unrealistic the longer it went on... Hope you got good memories, that medal is not very important. Just a nice dust collector 😊
Oh, apparently, next year it will be self navigating as they lose too many flags, the director told me!
Awesome movie catching the Pirin magic !
Thank you! Pure magic that I made it to the finish 😄 But what an experience...
Finally got around to watching this madness! Once again, thanks for sharing another crazy adventure Jan, and what a great job on telling the story over a whole spectrum of emotions! Makes me wanna visit those mountains 😁
Hats off to you, Sam and all the other madmen & women!
A whole spectrum of emotions sounds very accurate! An adventure like this takes you just as much on an inner jouney. My head was all over the place on this one 😄
Apologies accepted 😋Nice video 😎
Pfew, lucky me, it's a long way to bring back the medal! Keep organising, loved it!
wanted to run this race for 4-5 years now and this video capture it the best yet! amazing achievement, congrats from Bosnia! truly inspiring!
Thank you! Means a lot to me 😊 Go do it, it's quite an experience...
What an epic achievement! And a spectacular film as a legacy for your grandchildren one day... ☺
You need to have a word with Indre about that 😄
a brilliant one, so real and honest. 10x for watching
We all meet ourselves out there, no point trying to pretend to be different. I hope it inspires more people not only to go out there, but also to be real and open.
great movie!
Thank you! 😊
Happy running!
Great stuff! No idea how do you do it... looks like a torture to me 😀
It was torture for us too 😄 Now that is 'Type 2 fun'.
What happened to Sam did he finish ?
Hi, Sam here :) Yes, I did, after some crazy hallucinations in the last section trough the forest, but I finished this beast of a race.
He also fell on his hand early in the race, scrambled some things up in there so he couldn't move some fingers. Apparently that didn't hurt and he kept going up and down with his poles 😄
@@janvoorspoels yeah saw that his hand was swelled