The day I ran my first 50-miler, Jim Walmsley set a new 50-mile record, running 50 miles at an average pace of 5:48. I wanted to see if I could run one single solitary mile at that speed. This race gave me the chance to try it. I thought it would be a fun little…
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Best of 2019: Rock the Ridge 50 Miler
I’ve never been more afraid of a run than I was of this, my first 50-miler. In the weeks building up to it, I kept thinking about all the times I’d gotten to mile 22 or so in a marathon and started getting dark–really, really dark. The thing about a marathon, though, is that even…