I knew I wasn’t quite ready to sign up for a 100 miler. It had been a dream of mine for a few years now, and after running 100 kilometers (~60 miles) through the mountains of Colorado the previous summer, my takeaway had been that if I were to ever increase the distance, then I would ideally spend another year focused on strengthening up important muscles and healing injuries (you know, like a good yoga therapist would do). But life doesn’t always work in an ideal fashion, does it?