Tears welled up in my eyes as I slowly walked out of the runner’s tent and towards the toilets. “I failed,” I thought. The reality of the sudden end to what should have been one of my big races this year set in. I’d completed 19 laps of the O-See Backyard Ultra. And then my […]
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“If you’re ever in Quebec City I would be happy to have you. We could go on a few runs together.” I had met Veronique just days earlier at a parking lot in Trieste, Italy — two strangers scanning the same spot for a bus that would take us to Umag, Croatia. I chatted her
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“This could be your last chance to run this race”, I say to myself as I take a long look at my memento mori necklace. Thoughts of not starting crossed my head more than once this morning and I could feel the disappointment and anger rising within me. Like the year prior, my gut was
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Tears streamed down my face as I ran the final meters to the finish line of my first mountain trail ultramarathon. Overwhelmed by a mix of anger, gratitude and relief, I could barely breathe. My left knee was swollen and bleeding heavily. My hip ached. My right arm and hand were scraped raw. “I fell
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“I don’t feel like running at all”, I say to my new acquaintance as we’re sipping our coffees outside a small cafe in Sparta around 4 pm. I felt strangely relaxed, fully aware that I wasn’t in shape to run a good 24-hour race. The winter in Berlin was unexpectedly cold and long. The city
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I felt the tension in my body increasing as I typed. “This is the right thing to do,” I assured myself, as I continued to list the arguments. But then doubts started to creep in again. “Was I being too emotional? Should I wait a few more weeks or even months? Did I give her
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