If you enjoyed this I'd highly recommend watching the Documentary, "The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young", it's also primarily about a very long trail run in a way, but it touches on so much more throughout. Highly recommend it.

If you like this kind if thing, I happened to be reading this yesterday about two cyclists who failed to complete the European transcontinental bike race. I like the way he writes and there are some good photographs.

http://road.cc/content/blog/227874-transcontinentall-tale

I used to run long orienteering events in the south of Sweden and in Denmark. None of them were ever longer than 25km as the birds fly. Comparing the effort those km was for me to the 160km this lady run, I must say I'm very very impressed.

For me it's not even the distance... it's the time. Running 100 miles doesn't sound impossible to me... running for 31 straight hours is what sounds impossible.

She did a lot of that time walking. That's an average speed of 3.2 mph, which is just a hair faster than a brisk walk.

Not to say that she didn't do something way beyond what most people have ever done. I once hiked 55 miles over five days in the mountains and that was enough.

Whelp, now I wanna do a 100. After three full Ironman triathlons, my mind is looking for new novel ways to suffer. I’m totally going to do this.

You’ll get it. I’ve run two 100s and I’m running my third in a few weeks. The suffering really begins after 100K or so. It’s a long time on your feet.

If that doesn’t do it for you, let me recommend one of these options:

- The Last Annual Vol State 500K. https://ultrasignup.com/register.aspx?did=34762

- The Quintuple Anvil Triathlon. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/sports/virginia-quintuple...

You might also want to explore timed races where you run as far as you can on a loop course in 6 hr, 12 hr, 24 hr or 48 hr.

And if after all that you still haven’t found what you’re looking for, I can only recommend the Self-Transcendence 3100 mile race. http://www.3100.ws/

Wow! I once did 10 km about 10 years ago and haven't run since. This is inspiring.

This is a great piece; for some reason I love 'war' stories about mega-long trail runs.

But the best thing about this story is the power of a super-supportive family.

I did one 100 kilometers last summer in slovakia, It was a beautiful day to suffer! /micdrop