The even higher Five!?

Satisfy x adidas and what we did on the weekend.

Sorry, bit of a clickbait here. O.O

Sooo, Satisfy x adidas happened last weekend and while the whole world is arguing about whether it was the biggest show of the strength of the both brands, a cringe festival and demonstration of elitism or just an insane few days for fans and friends of the brand & hardcore music, i don’t really wanna discuss that here (i must say THIS REEL explained it pretty good, but i have to admit, i giggled because of some of the memes), as Runners Highest had quite a big weekend, we’ve been busy travelling to Alsace (Obernai to be specific) to race a 20k UTMB category, to London for Hackney Half with the homies from the Hoka fam and to Zegama to cheer the athletes with ACG. This definitely is busy in a very good way, so enjoy:

ALSACE BY UTMB

First of all and “most privately” i went to Obenai, Alsace, France with my clostest trail running friends to run 29k at the Trail des Pelérines. 29,8k, 900hm, sounded nice to drive to France in the morning, race, eat & a beer and drive back. And it was. I honestly had a great race with ok weather and managed to finish in 2:56 which i didn’t expect - especially after my whiny post about being sick and injured and not able to properly train in ages in a note last week. Uphill was very solid, trail downhills were solid, only the last 7? km on asphalt and hard gravel really hurt and i lost 20 spots. But wtf am i to care. Would have finishes 180th instead of 200th and that’s still amazing. Ran in my Tecton X3s that already carried me through 40k at MCC, 58k in Madeira, 50k in Alsace last year, 33k twice for XMAS Trail, 29k this weekend and a lot of test kilometers on Taunus home turf. Love this one. And thanks to Hoka btw for sorting the crew few more bibs and some pairs of Speedgoat 7 - very much appreciated. In general, i’d say i love local trail races, as it’s only 2,5 hours door-to-door but you wouldn’t believe me as it’s a UTMB race, so i’ll keep that for another one. But still, it takes me 4,5+ hours to get to the Alps, so the Vosgues, Black Forrest, Alsace or the local uplands (Taunus) are what we get when we talk about running trails “near home” and that’s fine for me.

Grande Alsace by UTMB

ZEGAMA

Meanwhile Nicolas travelled from Luxembourg to Zegama with ACG. Third ACG trip this year, Basque and an iconic race this time. Nike’s always busy and the schedule was tight but they deeeefinitely squeezed everything out of those 2,5 days. Cheering at the vertical K, trail run in the new Zegama, product talk & insights, hiking in the muddiest trails you can imagine. Check out the race day shots, it’s just insane and again show the mystical vibe around the iconic race. Rumor says he sat next to Killian on the way home and even got a little souvenir selfie. God i love trail running so much.

Teaser: Zegama with ACG

Meanwhile Josh was away in the UK, running Hackney Half with the Hoka fam. Unfortunately Hackney is “always” on the same weekend as my Alsace race is and i was registered for quite a long time. Also at the moment, i personally enjoy trail running a bit more than street racing. Will maybe change again sometime. Still, happy to have the chance to send friends to races and pass along amazing experiences and pretty cool weekends. Bro Lew Bloyce had his big weekend with a big-ass activation and even his face in a even bigger mural. Congrats my man! I only ran Hackney Half once but seeing all the pics from around the race, around Hackney and around Knees Up weirdly feels like “a place like home”. Only thing i wasn’t missing out on was the weather as it looked quite mediocre. O.O

Enjoy your week, fam! Will be in France again this weekend and hopefully get my brandnew RAIDE 5L vest onto the trails - and will review it afterwards. Next newsletter is coming, don’t worry!