Perhaps ....

Perhaps the genius of ultrarunning is its supreme lack of utility. It makes

no sense in a world of space ships and supercomputers to run vast distances

on foot. There is no money in it and no fame, frequently not even the

approval of peers. But as poets, apostles and philosophers have insisted

from the dawn of time, there is more to life than logic and common sense.

The ultra runners know this instinctively. And they know something else that

is lost on the sedentary. They understand, perhaps better than anyone, that

the doors to the spirit will swing open with physical effort. In running

such long and taxing distances they answer a call from the deepest realms of

their being -- a call that asks who they are ..."

- David Blaikie