UTMB 2024 Interview: adidas Terrex athlete Eric LiPuma

Okay everybody we're with Eric LePluma who is a Terex athlete of course you can

see and Eric is running the CCC this year and he lives in New England that's

where Road Trail Run is from so I had to speak to him but he's originally from

Jersey of all places so Eric tell us a little bit about your your running

experience and what it's like to be here in Chamonix and what shoes

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

Vermont so I do most of my training out there but luckily with Terex we get to

stay out here for quite a while before the race we've been doing a ton of good

training just getting out with the team pretty much every day I've seen the

second half of the course a ton for CCC saw the first half last year and the

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

excited. Okay so tell us a little bit about your past experience here and

otherwise and also of course what shoes are you gonna be rocking what what

Terex you preferring these days? Yeah so I'm racing in the Gravix Speed Ultra

pretty much every single race I do now is in that I think something if it was a

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

the Speed and then workouts in the Gravix Speed Ultra. I really like the Gravix 3

I think it's one of the best of the year 130 bucks energetic super super and so

do you have what what kind of strategy are you thinking about for the race? I

think I'll do best if I hold back a little bit for the first half and then

by the time like not really worry about anything until I get the Champey lock

yeah and then hopefully being good enough of a position there where I can

move into hopefully like top five top ten in the second half. So a lot of your

experience has been in at the World Championships you told me I think you

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

yeah super well thank you very much wishing you all the best that in nice

weather and fast running. Thank you. Okay thanks