Ragna Debats | 2022 Ultra Trail Cape Town Pre-Race Interview

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

Wilderness, Trail Running, Sports, Sports News, Mountain Running, Running, Ultrarunning, Ultra Running, News, Ultramarathon

5 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Text us your thoughts about this episode or ideas for future episodes!Ragna Debats a professional trail and ultra runner for Merrell based in Spain preparing for her race at the Ultra Trail Cape Town 100 miler this weekend.Timestamps:(0:23) - entry into trail and ultrarunning(3:18) - competing at an elite level in mid-40s(4:44) - keys to success at races like TGC, Istria, and Nice Cote D'Azure this year(6:16) - motivation to race Cape Town this year(9:33) - expectations, goals for the race(10...

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0:00.0	Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track Podcast.
0:04.0	I'm your host Finn Melanson and in this episode we are talking with Ragnad de Bott, a professional
0:09.4	trail and ultra runner for Merrill based in Spain ahead of her race at the Ultra Trail
0:14.2	Cape Town 100miler this weekend.
0:16.6	Let's dig in.
0:18.8	Ragna de Bots, welcome to the single track podcast. Hello, Finn. How are you?
0:23.7	I'm doing great. It's great to meet. And since this is our first time meeting, I'm curious,
0:28.3	can you talk a bit about how you became an ultra runner and what inspires you to compete at such a
0:34.1	high level in the sport? Yeah, it's actually probably a different story from many other people.
0:40.8	I didn't start running when I was young.
0:44.0	I was into horse riding.
0:46.1	And actually, it was my job.
0:49.3	I was a horse trainer at race size and jumping.
0:53.5	And at some point, I stepped out and I actually decided I
0:58.6	never wanted to compete again. And I started trying out all different kind of sport. Didn't
1:04.8	know about the existence of trail running at all. But I liked being out in nature and as I came into a better shape, I started
1:15.1	like going up a hill a little bit and at one point some like friends, some locals asked me if I
1:22.3	wanted to raise a race, which was just the next day and I was full of pipes and I said yes so that's how I came to
1:31.4	like race my first race and I really really loved it right from the beginning but I also realized
1:39.1	that it was something you really had to train for and it changed my mind again about competing.
1:45.8	I started to run races, but not really to try and be the best,
1:53.7	but simply to do it the best way I could and to enjoy the company of other people
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