Bel Monte 50M (2017) // An Arbitrary Number of Awesome Things Thereabout

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  1. People cheering and cowbelling a random dog that happened to trot down the finish chute.
  2. Getting asked how I was doing as I was passed around mile 40+ and replying “Tip-top!”.
  3. Realizing that it was totally true.
  4. Also realizing that morning that this would be five (5) ultramarathons in five (5) months. (For context, up until November 2015, the longest race I’d ever run was a 10-miler, and that was one of my ‘long’ runs.)
  5. The wolflike howling that filled the valley at about mile 49.9 and stopped the second I threw up a quick Rocky pose at 50.0.
  6. Not getting any weird looks when asking the lady manning the grub table to, quote, “Nutella up these Oreos”…
  7. … not even when I went back for seconds. So delicious.
  8. Reading in the paper the next day about the local 10 Miler and the “seemingly endless straightaway along Main Street, from mile 7.4 to mile 8.1″…
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