I was working a race last summer and chatting it up with those around me. “Have you ever done an ultra?” a lady asked me as we handed out race packets and welcomed athletes, the sun peeking above the ...

Ultrarunning is an existential journey. What do we learn at mile 30 or 50 or 99? We learn that we are layers of self-aware meat and gristle built on stick-figure scaffolding. And every so often, when ...