If I have to explain to you why I want to start ultrarunning, you will probably never get it. I believe it is something that exists in everyone at some level, perhaps subconsciously or genetically. A remnant of our ancestral past that lingers in us, suppressed by 21st century life and deemed alien to the vast majority of modern humans.
Perhaps this means that me along with many other runners with this strange and unsociable urge to run not just mere marathons, but ultramarathons, are a step back in evolution?
