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Duncan Hall's avatar

The current version I'm telling myself of "a race is the celebration after the hard work" is "you've already run 80% of the ultramarathon when it starts"

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Read before You Ultra's avatar

I like that, way to make the sunk-cost fallacy work in your favor!

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Jens Peters's avatar

You talked so much about your lovely spreadsheets, but as long as you don’t show us one of them, I don’t believe anything in this text 😂

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Read before You Ultra's avatar

Haha, fair enough. Let me see if I can take a screenshot…

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Jens Peters's avatar

Wow. It actually looks great. Thanks for uploading and the inspiration!!

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Read before You Ultra's avatar

Thank you for reading!

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Jeff Calvert's avatar

I'm glad I'm not the only one who actually enjoys the spreadsheet side of the running life (and appreciates that it's worth the effort to get the fonts and colors and formatting just right). An old mantra from my marathon days is "plan your run and then run your plan". Learning to navigate the constant back-and-forth tension between the plan and reality is part of the joy of the whole endeavor.

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Read before You Ultra's avatar

Thank you for the thoughtful comment, Jeff. The last sentence, in particular—well said!

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