“I think I might be good at Ultras,” said the Traka Adventure winner Maddy Nutt (Q36.5 Off Road Racing) with an easy smile that belies the effort she just put out over 560km and the last 24-plus hours. Her eyes told a different story; bloodshot, and at times the thousand-yard stare taking over as we sat down for a drink in one of Girona’s many cafés.
Only a handful of hours previously Nutt had outlined to me that her aim was to beat the women’s course record on her first attempt at an ultra-distance gravel race, something she achieved by almost two and a half hours.
