{"id":11126,"date":"2023-09-19T06:24:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T13:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christofteuscher.com\/aagaa\/?p=11126"},"modified":"2023-09-26T14:01:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T21:01:41","slug":"report-the-ice-and-glacier-double-iceland-traverse-fkt-and-tor-des-glaciers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christofteuscher.com\/aagaa\/report-the-ice-and-glacier-double-iceland-traverse-fkt-and-tor-des-glaciers\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: The Ice and Glacier Double – Iceland Traverse FKT and Tor des Glaciers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doing back to back races or adventures (aka doubles) is most definitely a thing. You will find lots of runners at the Tor races<\/a> who did PTL, UTMB, or Swiss Peaks a week before. I did my own UTMB + Tor double in 2017<\/a>, but that wasn’t even unique back then. It’s hard to be creative with doubles, or even triples today.<\/p>\n

Why do doubles? Well, people have all kinds of reasons: pushing your own limits, figuring out what’s possible, making the most of a trip, seeing more great landscapes, etc.<\/p>\n

For 2023, I cooked up a double that mainly optimized travel, but would also challenge myself in various and new ways: I would first fly to Iceland, complete an unsupported Iceland traverse<\/a>, then continue on to Europe, where I would complete Tor des Glaciers<\/a> about a week later. It sounded like a great idea…<\/p>\n

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The ice and glacier double. Nothing too crazy.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Unsupported Iceland Traverse<\/h3>\n

The Iceland traverse FKT went well: on Aug 27, 2023, I was able to wrap up a new unsupported Fastest Known Time<\/a>\u00a0(FKT) on the\u00a0north-south traverse of Iceland<\/a> in 8 days, 11 hours, and 4 minutes. That turned out to be 4 days, 15 hours, 41 minutes faster than Eli Burakian\u2019s 2022 unsupported FKT<\/a>\u00a0and 21 hours, 14 minutes slower than\u00a0Meredith Quinlan and Jess Baker\u2019s 2018 self-supported FKT<\/a>. I had good and bad times, as you can imagine.<\/p>\n

For lots of pics, see\u00a0REPORT: Unsupported Iceland Traverse FKT<\/a>. There will be a movie as well at some point.<\/p>\n

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This hot tub was key to recovery in Iceland. Heated geothermally, of course.<\/p><\/div>\n

Tor des Glaciers<\/h3>\n

Instead of words, here are a few photos.<\/p>\n

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The Tor des Glaciers route is “bello e impossibile<\/a>.”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Arrived!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Drooling…<\/p><\/div>\n

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The last supper.<\/p><\/div>\n

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At the start…<\/p><\/div>\n