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Wow. How do you train for that?
The book itself reminded me alot of Lance Armstrong's autobiography, in the triumph of the human spirit (or in the Lance's case: pharmaceutical science) over adversity and the human body. Probably had the same ghost-writer.
Just slowly up your mileage. Have averaged 50+ miles a week since christmas this year. In terms of the running ultras simply start of with something slightly longer than a marathon and open your mind to the fact that a 26.2 marathon is just an arbitrary number. With the right pacing and nutrition many multiples of that 26.2 are possible. The lad I ran the C2C with this year ran 160 miles up and down Shining Tor in the middle of a December storm last year (The Hill Ultra) ....1.45 miles up the hill, 1.45 miles down, 55 times....48 hour limit and only one to finish the race in 47hrs and 40 odd minutes. It is genuinely mind over matter. If you are fit to the point you can complete a marathon comfortably then you can finish a 50 miler at a lower pace....The 100s are a different animal and are very destructive on both mind on body. The same applies though, pacing (we started out running 9.5 min miles on flat bits and were still running 10 min miles on flat bits at 110 miles) , food and coping with lack of sleep (quite good fun waking up and realising you are still actually running lol)