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The Race of My Life

The Race of My Life - Wild Duluth 100k I'm not sure how I go from a race for my life, to a race of my life in a month and a half, but it happened. I'm still trying to fully comprehend what took place and can't thank enough all the many great friends that believed in me and supported me to make it to this point.  I have never been one to place high at a race and have never considered myself to anything more than an average middle of the pack runner. I'm great at placing 200th when there is only 100 runners racing.  Most all my running friends know my race strategy to be go out hard, crash and burn, and hang on for dear life just to finish. This race that all changed. I became a contender!  I signed up for Wild Duluth during a low point after finishing my first hundred miler at Superior 100. Much of what I was battling leading up to that race was still haunting me. In my mind, the only thing to make it better was to race more After I signed up, I never gave