Cheongnamdae 100km Ultra Marathon — Part 4 'Amazing People'
Cheongnamdae 100km Ultra Marathon — Part 4 'Amazing People' I. The Thinning Crowd For the first 10km, you run and walk surrounded by a thick crowd. Past 20km, the crowds start to thin out. They bunch up again going uphill, then scatter on the downhill. By around 30km, it's just people running at a similar pace — passing each other back and forth. That's how I arrived at the 30km checkpoint (CP — where food and water are available). II. Just Let Me Get to 50km,,, For the first 20km or so, I stayed with the four people I started with. Jjong called out every kilometer — "1%!", and I heard him all the way up to "17%!" before he surged ahead and I couldn't hear his count anymore. Durumi and Bravo, running quietly and steadily, also pulled ahead. Only the captain remained by my side. The captain had his Garmin set to beep every 400 meters. At the start, he said, "Jeong, just 250 laps around a track. That's all." ...