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Reading about ultra running really helped to motivate me during marathon training.  I thought “If those folks can go 100 miles and endure the blisters, the heat, the extreme exhaustion, and everything else over more than 24 hours in some cases, I can certainly run through my aches and pains in under 4 hours”. If you are curious about ultra running and the stories these people tell, a good book to read is “Running Through the Wall: Personal Encounters with the Ultramarathon”. from page 247 … We tried to put the runner over the camel’s saddle, but he kept falling [...]