Tour and cross country skiing his brains out : PATRICK

Each of us is scheduling his own training program according to his sports preferences. Patrick went early January to Switzerland to practice tourski, pulling himself up 1000 mt/day. On the way up, he crossed some of the specialists in the field and the world champion is a Swiss guy from Verbier. THE big bi-annual event between Zermatt and Verbier is the "Patrouille des Glaciers" (http://www.pdg.ch/) which takes place on April 21-24, 2010, organized by the Swiss Army (Federation). You need a team of three persons and you can do half of the track, starting half way from Arolla, with a height difference of approx 1500 mt or the full race from Zermatt which is twice 1500mt plus about 50 kms climbing with skis, rope skiing and running. Patrick is dreaming to participate to this after his NorthboundQuest. In the meanwhile, he's building up his condition slowly but surely. Trying to benefit from the exceptional amount of snow (65cm) in the East Cantons of Belgium last week, he did twice the 25K track from Haus Ternell (between Eupen and Monschau(D)).