Ultrarunners go beyond physical endurance, facing days of extreme terrain, sleep deprivation, and mental battles that most can’t imagine. Unlike marathoners who focus on pace and PRs, ultrarunners embrace pain, let go of control, and find meaning in the journey itself. Their tight-knit, trail-based community thrives on grit, introspection, and the shared pursuit of transformation through suffering.
Do you let your running pace define you as an individual? Is it how your identify yourself as a runner? We can allow pace to steal our bliss for running if we let it but we are overwhelmed with data and metrics that define our run as being good or not good. How can we allow ourselves to find our bliss in running and not let pace ruin it for us?