Hello!
Recently, I went for a drink with a friend in a pub (all of those words together still feel quite radical), and she told me about her experiences running her first ultra. We both had a bit of a cry as she recounted the physical and mental endurance of those two days. It had been so hard, but so good: a feeling that many of us can empathise with. The thing is, whether we’ve been training our guts out for an ultra or for our very first 5K, when we achieve that thing for the very first time, it’s common for us to feel a bit overwhelmed. Because, of course, the race we do is the result of many weeks and months of sheer hard work, of determination, and of…