Originally Posted by
unterhausen
On my first 300k, I remember cresting a hill just before a control thinking that it was only 100k to the finish, and that wasn't going to be a problem because I had done that so many times before. And I was right, it wasn't a problem.
I will have to remember that. I can't tell you how many times when I was doing long trail runs (marathon or 50K) when I would get to that point where it was ONLY 5K or 10K to the finish and I'd think that anyone could walk a 5K/10K. Of course in races of those distances my legs were always hurting like heck by the 20 mile mark, if not sooner.