Part of fitting ultra running into your life, as opposed to fitting your life into ultra running, is that occasionally things don’t turn out like you had planned. Last year I had gotten onto the wait list for Yamacraw along with my running partner Brent and brother-in-law, Joe Dan. Brent was towards the front of the list and easily got into the race, but he was worried we wouldn’t get in and decided to decline his entry. As fate would have it, both I and Joe Dan would eventually get into the race, but with Brent having already declined entry it didn’t seem right for us to go, so we both decided to forego our entries as well. Hopefully this was the closest thing to a Shakespearean tragedy I’ll ever have to experience. I can live with that.
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