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Why just run 20 miles then?
by sarchertech 1y ago
Why just run 20 miles then?
- rootusrootus 1y agoBecause then it wouldn't be a challenge and nobody would care about the achievement.
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- sarchertech 1y agoI’m curious do ultramarathoners feel the same way about the rest of the race past 20 miles?
- rootusrootus 1y agoI've heard it claimed that an ultramarathon is fundamentally a different experience because while it definitely requires excellent physical stamina, it has a large mental component to it, as well as a much bigger focus on nutrition. Very different sort of race, I guess.
- justinwp 1y agothere are multiple cycles from highs to lows and back and then typically a larger dominant split similar what was discussed here for the marathon but scaled to the distance.
- justinwp 1y agothe split would be first 80 and las t 20 miles +-10 miles.
- jebarker 1y agoYes. I've run numerous 50Ks, 50 milers, 100ks and 100 milers. I felt like crap after 20 miles in almost all of them. Most of getting better at ultramarathons is learning to keep going when feeling like crap. Oddly, the one race that was an exception is probably the hardest one of them I did on paper - in that case I was going so slowly from the beginning that I never really hit a 20 mile wall.
- monooso 1y agoThis makes no sense. 20 miles is still a challenge, and how many people run marathons because someone else is impressed if you run 26 miles, but couldn't care less if you run 20?
- nextworddev 1y agobecause that'd be quitting the race with 6.2 miles left to go
- sarchertech 1y agoYou could run a half marathon.
- nextworddev 1y agoyeah but anyone can do that
- maccard 1y agoBecause it would be 16 miles of bliss and 4 miles of torture then. The point is the last section of the run is always significantly harder - it’s even the same for 5k