Karl's Ultra Ramblings

  Part 2 of 2 - The 315km from Overkalix to the finish..... at Overkalix Interlude While Karl and Harriet are sleeping the sleep of the dead at Checkpoint 4 Overkalix, dreaming of medals and cake (but mostly cake), lets take a moment to reflect. Swedish Lapland, described as Europe's Last Great Wilderness is quite simply breathtakingly beautiful. To a larger extent ultra racing to us was endurance-challenge-reward and so what featured most were metrics like distance, time, elevation, terrain underfoot. On technical terrain hours could be spent literally watching ones own feet.  Entering an arctic wilderness is like entering a Christmas card and we were blown away by the landscape from the day we arrived, and were still staring admiringly out of the taxi window as we were being driven back to the airport. Combined with a relatively consistent trail underfoot, and our policy of moving as much in daylight as possible, meant we could fully absorb the scenery.  Had the logistics of taki