Film: Tor des Géants - TOR 330 (2022)

 


Prologue

One day you will look down from the mountain and see how far you have come. 

TOR is not just a race, it is a journey made up of sunrises and sunsets. The desire to do something almost impossible. Feel like a Giant. 

It is primarily an experience. The relationship between man and nature. Between man and mountains. Where we feel how small and helpless we are compared to nature and the mountains. A transition where you open the door to other states of consciousness. Where most things become ridiculously irrelevant. When your world narrows in running, walk, eat, drink, rest and run, walk again...

TOR is a story forever burned into our hearts, a story of efforts, passion and emotions. I am grateful to have been given it to live. 

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving there safely, in a handsome and well-preserved body, but rather with the screeching of the tires on the bends in clouds of smoke, well drained, fully formed and loudly exclaiming: "Wow! What a ride!”

The story is slowly coming for me. It's amazing what a person can endure if they set their mind to it. The Garmin watch failed recording twice, the old sneakers fell apart, but the man still keeps going. Because it has something that equipment doesn't. His own will, with which he can go beyond his limitations.

Several times in between the continuous ups and downs, I smiled in my head at the fact that someone would congratulate me on my enjoyment at the end. TOR is many things, but it is definitely not enjoyment. TOR is one of the toughest endurance tests in the world. There are moments of rapture when you feel that you are one with the nature around you, that you could move mountains. And there are moments when you land on the ground in the sand, with your tongue out, no energy, sore blisters and muscles, when you realize how small and helpless you really are. There are moments when you howl with happiness at a beautiful sunrise, on the ridges of the mountains, and thank the whole universe for allowing you to do these things. And there are moments when thunder cracks twice and pours down the next moment, as if there is a cosmic flood. And you run to somewhere to hide. There are moments when, during continuous multi-hour descents from the mountains, you wonder how much more pain your body can take before you've had enough. The answer is ultimately simple. As necessary.


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