Mourning My Father With Ultra-Long-Distance Running
A million steps along a crooked path led me here
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12 min readMar 12, 2019
A funny thing happens after you’ve been running long distances for a while. You begin to lose perspective. It happens so gradually that you barely notice, until the day when 12 miles seems like a “short” run. When a couple thousand vertical feet of gradual uphill running spread over 15 miles is…