Lauren Gregory Picks Chamonix for Her First
One of the fastest young mountain runners in the United States takes her climbing legs to the OCC, in her debut, during the loudest week of the year.
There are gentler places to run your first OCC than UTMB week in Chamonix. Lauren Gregory is not interested in gentler. Speedy and sure-footed, per Trail Runner, she has been emerging as one of the top mountain runners in the country, and she is spending that reputation on steep grades and high stakes in front of the biggest crowd trail running assembles.
A debut is the only race you get to run without a previous result hanging off it. She picked the one where everyone is watching.