These kind of race blogs are some what endangered specie but the way you articulated your race is quiet good brother. Facing every bit of friction you could and then also holding your uptempo to not make the decision of DNF while battling your inner demons all along the course about not able to perform is drudgery at its peak. Great work brother not just for the race but for whatever you went through & still held your head high.! <3 Keep writing as nobody would get to know what's behind the veil of numbers or races Shashwat bhai runs, deep dive into what goes b/w ears of OG of trail running in India.
I was also thinking of DNF while running my 60 KM race even though I was winning. I was like WTF, did I came to put up this mediocre of a performance. But then I turned inwards or call it first principles- how can I improve when I throw in the towel? How will I improve when the next time I won't know how much it sucks and I have to over the obstacle of unknown territory and embrace the suck part of ultra running.
These kind of race blogs are some what endangered specie but the way you articulated your race is quiet good brother. Facing every bit of friction you could and then also holding your uptempo to not make the decision of DNF while battling your inner demons all along the course about not able to perform is drudgery at its peak. Great work brother not just for the race but for whatever you went through & still held your head high.! <3 Keep writing as nobody would get to know what's behind the veil of numbers or races Shashwat bhai runs, deep dive into what goes b/w ears of OG of trail running in India.
I was also thinking of DNF while running my 60 KM race even though I was winning. I was like WTF, did I came to put up this mediocre of a performance. But then I turned inwards or call it first principles- how can I improve when I throw in the towel? How will I improve when the next time I won't know how much it sucks and I have to over the obstacle of unknown territory and embrace the suck part of ultra running.
Very graphic 😄 Lovely read... Those are some pretty crazy odds to beat to get to a podium finish :)
What a detailed report… wishing you better racing ahead…keep going… thanks for the mention bossman! 🙌🏻