The Rise of the Ultra Runners

If you have been in or followed the ultra scene for any amount of time there is nothing new here for you.

The author found a way to have someone else pay for him to race and get into UTMB.

One take away is the amount of talk about mental struggles in races and yet way more time spent discussing running form than mental training to improve his performance/enjoyment of racing long distance.

Finn perfectly captures why we run for silly distances and what we feel when we push ourselves to our physical and mental limits. Without resorting to extraneous adjectives he shows how we talk ourselves into pushing even deeper than we're comfortable admitting. To arrive at the finish line, on the other side of darkness and pain, is very difficult to explain. “Rise of the Ultra Runners” is what I want to give to others after I complete an Ultramarathon, to say “here - this is what I feel.”

hits different after experiencing these moments myself

Running! Running far! Finn goes from marathoner to ultramarathoner for work reasons but falls into the addiction of the pain cave and brings a number of interviews with elite ultrarunners into this tale of running one of the biggest ultra races.