This 330km race in Italy is among the world’s most gruelling. Percy arrived in Courmayeur on the eve of the event, already at a disadvantage due to fever. The course’s length and demanding elevation gain added to the challenge. As stress mounted, his wife and daughters were his pillars, reminding him of all the efforts he had made to reach this point – something he wouldn’t have dreamed of 12 years earlier. “I decided to start slowly and listen to my body to see how it would respond,” he says. The Tor des Géants was the culmination of nine months of preparation, 210 activities and 355 hours of training. Determined, Percy tackled the course with motivation, intuition and resilience – key qualities for any trail or ultra-trail runner.
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