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\"HOKA<\/p>\n

You might not have heard of <\/i><\/b>Ludo Pommeret<\/i><\/b>, but he is the Usain Bolt, the Lionel Messi, the Lebron James, of Ultra-Trail running. His story of a seemingly impossible comeback is\u00a0the latest in our Huck x HOKA series, looking at mavericks who found a new perspective through running.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Imagine entering a race that will require you to run an entire earth day and night \u2014 if you\u2019re exceptional that is. It will take far longer than a day if you\u2019re not. Imagine running in a race over a distance greater than four marathons, across the Alps, Europe\u2019s highest and most punishing mountain range.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now picture puking your guts out by the side of a trail less than a third of the way into the race, and looking so pale and broken, that, as they pass you, all your friends and fellow competitors will suppose you\u2019re about to drop out and seek urgent medical attention. But you don\u2019t. Somehow you don\u2019t. <\/span><\/p>\n

The next time they notice you, you\u2019re standing at the very top of the podium.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scaling new heights<\/h3>\n

Growing up in the French Alps, Ludo Pommeret was unsurprisingly drawn to winter sports. He loved skiing and snowboarding. And windsurfing in the summer. He loved sports with stoke and adrenaline; running seemed achingly dull in comparison. \u201cWhen I was younger, I thought it was not very interesting to run,\u201d he says. \u201cI thought runners were boring.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ludo was really good at snowboarding, especially big mountain freeriding and soon found he was picking up sponsors and doing shoots for brands. But as the stakes got higher, his interest in the inherent dangers of riding in the backcountry began to wane. \u201cWhen you reach a certain level, the descents start to be quite dangerous,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd you are jumping more and more, from higher and higher points\u2026 When I got older I started to think more about the danger. It became different.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"HOKA<\/p>\n

He was hungry for a new challenge. A less risky way to feel the same buzz he\u2019d got from charging down mountains. He certainly didn\u2019t expect it to come from running, but when his brother-in-law suggested he enter a small race close to his village, he decided to give it a go.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was good. My brother-in-law and a few friends entered. They all did athletics and cross-country regularly, but I finished in front of them, so they were surprised,\u201d he laughs. \u201cI was too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Laying the foundations<\/h3>\n

At the beginning he didn\u2019t think running was something he could be good at. \u201c<\/span>I entered another race. This one started in my village so I thought, \u2018Why not?\u2019 It was a very long race \u2014 106 km in total, with lots of elevation \u2014 though you could do it as a walker. But it was too difficult, the doctors stopped me after 60 km, as my blood pressure was too low.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Did he not want to steer clear of long races after that? \u201cNo, I thought maybe I just have to prepare for such a race. But the next year, I couldn\u2019t finish either.\u201d Then in 2003, that race stopped and the Ultra Trail Du Mont Blanc, or UTMB, began. It\u2019s since become a world-famous event, often cited as the \u201cTour de France\u201d of trail running. Ludo entered in 2004 but dropped out again, this time scuppered by tendonitis.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThen I stopped long races. I decided to start doing smaller ones, to build up slowly.\u201d It worked. Ludo was no longer getting injured and he started winning races. \u201c<\/span>That<\/span><\/i> was the beginning of my running,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"HOKA<\/p>\n

To his surprise, he started to experience that same passion and thrill that he used to get from snowsports once more but this time he was getting it from bombing down a mountain in his running shoes without a board or set of skis in sight. He loved the gradual anticipation of the climbs and running as fast as he could down the rugged and technical rocky terrain on the other side.<\/span><\/p>\n

He now wins the races he once couldn\u2019t finish, including last year\u2019s UTMB, where he staged a never-seen-before, epic comeback, going from 50th to finishing 1st. It was this race, which had left him vomiting by the side of the trail seemingly stripped of hope. Yet with seemingly indefatigable spirit, he kept running, through intense summer heat, violent thunderstorms and disorientating darkness, to the most unlikely of victories.<\/span><\/p>\n

How did Ludo keep going and maintain any semblance of morale when his chances of winning seemed so remote? \u201cThese races are so long and so much can happen. You just need to be there at the end and see.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTrail running is like life. You know you\u2019ll have a bad moment in the race. Almost all races have a moment that\u2019s difficult and hard to manage. In life, it\u2019s the same, we have good and bad moments. Almost every time you have a bad moment, you\u2019ll have a better moment to come.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Huck is a youth culture channel. It celebrates and explores independent culture \u2014 people and movements that paddle against the flow.\u00a0Find out more about\u00a0HUCK<\/a>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Learn more about<\/i><\/b>\u00a0the supportive and technical trail running Mafate Speed shoes<\/a>\u00a0Ludo\u00a0wears.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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