Ultrarunning for Normal People: Life Lessons Learned On and Off the Trail

...he did not follow a one-size-fits-all strategy because, as he explained, everyone has different life stressors. Life stressors—not running styles, not baseline endurance markers, but life stressors like jobs and families.

Without actively choosing to take each and every next step, you never will. Even the smallest effort weeks and weeks before race day can make a huge difference when the seemingly insurmountable task can be broken down into manageable pieces. Those small steps in training become giant strides in the face of a monumental challenge. I call this process “the law of the farm.” You do the work, or no harvest.