How did I get hooked onto marathon runners?
I watch a lot of National Park visit planning videos. Most of marathons happen around these National Parks and one thing let to another and here I am trying to think myself as an ultra marathon runner!
An ultra marathon runner races can be upto 250 miles. They run with very little sleep for two to four days. They have pacers and crew members who follow them and help them accomplish their goal of finishing the race.
I call my journey with my young man always to be a marathon and not a sprint. After watching all these races, I can say I am running an ultra marathon 🤷♀️!
I think it is a much more difficult marathon!
The race is being run with sparse crew and no pacers. Multiple nights of no sleep and intense planning and there is no end is sight. The hills we go up and the low downs we see are the sights along the route. Along the dark route sometimes and the headlights alone take you through the night!
Anyway unless you watch a documentary of the same you can’t imagine what the runner experiences. The runners do get pacers to travel certain miles. Then they travel alone. At aide stations crews help them to recover, eat and rest!
As I saw the videos, I could imagine me running with my young man, my husband pacing with me and my mom being the crew at the aide station. As we all grow older, my son is running the ultra marathon, me and his dad the pacer and crew member!
It was an aha moment for me yesterday when I realized all this. Hey, we are a family of ultra marathon runners!
https://youtu.be/S774m29AYr4?si=KgT50bBJiN9HMx9o
A race in Death Valley National Park. 👆
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