Day 4,444—Everyone Needs an Advocate—
Start time: 8:30 a.m. Weather: Mid 70s, wind 4.0 mi/h, Humidity 72% I listened to the podcast episode from Weathering the Storm, and it was so much better than I thought. I was still thinking about a lot of the stories and things I didn’t talk about, but I was also disappointed that I didn’t make some of the stories around the weather conditions more dramatic. The flash flood during the Shawnee Hill was insane! The two major winter storms I ran in were just out of this world difficult. I also didn’t talk about my true origin story in ultra-running. I wanted to talk about this idea that I have been telling other runners recently. I originally would tell people one of the best things about ultra runs is that everyone is cheering you on, but that’s not what life is like. When you think in general about some of the most difficult things a person might go through, something like addiction, mental illness, family tragedy, it is not that people don’t encourage you they’re j...
