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15,000 calories burned, three toilet stops, one faint – Maddy Nutt breaks down her remarkable debut victory at…

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Maddy Nutt sits down at the finish of the Traka 560 (Image credit:  Q36.5 Women's Off-Road Racing Expedition) “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. “Guess how many calories I burned?" she asked me, genuinely excited by the magnitude of the number. I ask to save that for later, because with a course that kisses the Pyrenees before heading for home I wanted to know where the hardships lay on the course, and it wasn’t where you’d expect.…

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