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UTMB 2024 Interview: adidas Terrex athlete Eric LiPuma
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Okay everybody we're with Eric LePluma who is a Terex athlete of course you can
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see and Eric is running the CCC this year and he lives in New England that's
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where Road Trail Run is from so I had to speak to him but he's originally from
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Jersey of all places so Eric tell us a little bit about your your running
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experience and what it's like to be here in Chamonix and what shoes
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are you gonna wear of course the Road Trail Run we're always about a lot about shoes go ahead. I've been here in Chamonix for about a month now like Sam said I live in
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Vermont so I do most of my training out there but luckily with Terex we get to
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stay out here for quite a while before the race we've been doing a ton of good
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training just getting out with the team pretty much every day I've seen the
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second half of the course a ton for CCC saw the first half last year and the
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second half but just kind of been focusing on scouting the second half this year and I only have a couple more days until race day now and I'm getting
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excited. Okay so tell us a little bit about your past experience here and
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otherwise and also of course what shoes are you gonna be rocking what what
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Terex you preferring these days? Yeah so I'm racing in the Gravix Speed Ultra
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pretty much every single race I do now is in that I think something if it was a
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little bit shorter and more technical I'd use the Speed and then most of my training miles are in the Gravix 3 and then doing a little bit of training in
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the Speed and then workouts in the Gravix Speed Ultra. I really like the Gravix 3
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I think it's one of the best of the year 130 bucks energetic super super and so
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do you have what what kind of strategy are you thinking about for the race? I
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think I'll do best if I hold back a little bit for the first half and then
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by the time like not really worry about anything until I get the Champey lock
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yeah and then hopefully being good enough of a position there where I can
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move into hopefully like top five top ten in the second half. So a lot of your
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experience has been in at the World Championships you told me I think you
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were seventh twice generally a bit shorter distances right? Those it's shorter than CCC the distance I did there was both about 80k. Oh 80k okay yeah
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yeah super well thank you very much wishing you all the best that in nice
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weather and fast running. Thank you. Okay thanks
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