However, he didn’t take with him any drugs, which would have been very helpful. He said he was able to see the Aurora Borealis for the first time during the race and that he wasn’t short on food and was even left with some food to bring back home. I even had some hallucinations,” he added.

“I didn’t sleep in the first three days to be able to put some distance between me and the others. I was racing against very good athletes,” Useriu told the press and fans, according to Mediafax. “I went there with no name and I wanted to scare them (the other competitors – e.n.) from the start, so they wouldn’t keep close to me. “The race wasn’t harder than I had expected,” he said, adding that he went well prepared into this adventure. The 41-year old man from Bistrita trained all winter by running half-naked in the Tihuta pass, by sleeping outdoors during cold winter nights, and by bathing in frozen lakes. However, he managed to finish the race due to his thorough training. He said that the freezing cold was the hardest to endure and caused him frostbites on his hands. He endured strong winds and freezing temperatures of up to minus 52 degrees Celsius but managed to lead most of the race and win it. Tiberiu Useriu is the first Romanian who has won the 566-kilometer race beyond the Polar Circle, which is called 6633 Arctic Ultra. More than 100 people waited for Tiberiu Useriu at the Cluj-Napoca International Airport, on Wednesday evening, as he returned from Canada, where he won the world’s hardest ultramarathon last week.

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