On ultra-running

"Are these runners ultra-tough or ultra-crazy?" asks Jonah Keri in his article on ESPN (via: A trail runner's blog). From personal experience, you have to be a bit of both. As popular belief goes, no sane person in their right mind would consider running such distances. I completely disagree with this sentiment although most people who know me probably think I have a mental problem after I tell them about the fun runs that we bloos have been doing over the last year and half.. and most of them are too nice to tell me this to my face :).
Says Yiannis Kourous....by most accounts, the greatest ultra-runner of our times, in the article,

"Ultra running is a metaphysical event. If you don't have that kind of idiosyncrasy, you will never become an ultra runner, even if you train all your life. I am one of those people who recommend and try to inspire people to get involved with running. But ultra is not a fun-running sport -- it's only for unique souls."

Thrill seekers? Adrenaline junkies ? Or plain masochists....? You decide.