I say this not as an opinion but as a biomechanical fact. This is because the finish line for the elite athletes in those races often comes before the failure points have a chance to impact performance.Īll reasonably healthy individuals can locomote at the necessary speed to beat the cutoffs for any ultramarathon. The very small exception is elite athletes competing in 50Ks and 50-mile distances and flat 100Ks. These failure points are somewhat universal, as indicated by the research I cover further in my book Training Essentials for Ultrarunning, and help define the limiting factors for ultrarunning. They continued to be able to eat, drink, and locomote down the trail, even if it was not very fast.īecause so many things can go wrong, and the penalties for failure are high, “success by lack of failure” is a key element in successful ultramarathon running. They prevented themselves from becoming a nauseous, sore, blistered, battered, and stumbling mess. They prevented time spent at 0 miles per hour. They achieve their goals, win races, and get those coveted belt buckles not because they ran one section very well but because they prevented the negative. In my experience, most ultramarathon athletes, even the elites, find success through a lack of failure on race day.
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