I often say – If you can run a half marathon, you can run a marathon. If you can run a marathon, you can run a 50K. If you can run a 50K, you can run a 50 miler…
Let’s put aside the concept of human limitation to the side for a short while. Let’s just dream unhinged and believe you can run as long and as far as your imagination take you. Just for a short while.
Now that we have accepted we are limitless, we begin the planning for a long run.
Imagine you have a sandwich in front you. The two slices of bread sitting on a table top next to each other. And you have a spoon full of jam to be spread over it.
Now imagine you have four slices of bread in front you. But you only have the 1 spoon of jam. If I ask you – can you spread 1 spoon of jam on 4 slices of bread now? I guess you would say Yes!
Whether you run 8 miles or 16 miles, it is possible to run with the same level of effort. Take the jam of your effort and spread it on more miles of bread! ( I know that sounds silly. But I hope the analogy made sense).
There are many aspects to running an ultra marathon but at quite near the bottom of the large pyramid of factors – is understanding your effort jam that you have in your bottle and knowing how to spread it.
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