Burning Out

With the growing popularity of our sport, our once light trail race schedule is now absolutely rammed. It seems like these days there are literally more races than you can shake a stick at.

Despite the majority of trail-race participants running conventional distances, the ultramarathon has taken root as the go-to aspirational distance for many of us. Often heard at race expos is the self-conscious caveat of ‘I’m ONLY doing x’ by athletes with the temerity to run anything less than the marque distance. We’ve become a culture of completionists, striving for that next medal in the set.

A strength of anyone who completes endurance events is stickability, however I