I just had to add this, no commentary necessary. It's just so true:
You can DNF all you want!!! Because frankly….Who gives a
crap?! I remember reading a post a little while ago stating that those
who DNF ultras were essentially nothing more than human garbage. Not
finishing what you start is basically the worst thing imaginable.
Complete failure. I say screw that nonsense! If you’re sick, fractured,
twisted, fatigued, or heck…if you just want to go home, eat dinner with
your family and call it a day, by all means, just do it. You can! You
can stop running! It’s your life, it’s your experience, and who cares
what anyone else thinks about it? I seriously doubt that when any of us
are on our death beds, we will be wishing, above all else, that we had
finished that dang 100 miler. Ultrarunning, as wonderful as it is, puts
an intense amount of stress on the body–YOUR body. The skin that YOU
have to live in every single day, and for the rest of YOUR entire life.
Race wisely.
Helps put things in perspective as does the rest of this great blog by Ashley on "9 ultra running norms you can break": http://ashruns100s.com/2014/09/18/9-ultra-running-norms-you-can-break/
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