July 5: So Much Progress Here (Utpal’s blog)
“It is hard.”
Baladev’s description of the race this morning is by far the simplest and most direct response you could possibly ask for.
In their own way, each of the other runners would probably echo this same sentiment. Even the most astute observer of the race cannot really grasp the dimensions or the supreme challenge of it all. We can never know or understand just what he and the other runners are up against here on the course of the 3100 mile race.
For even the most experienced distance runner at best can only come to some theoretical understanding of what it must be like running 18 hours a day for weeks on end.
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