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We have Salah McCray with a message for us to enlighten us.

Sally?

What do you have?

Yeah.

Today, I just, I thought I'd enlighten you guys with a little bit about race planning and

race strategy.

I'd say that it is, it's very common that we hear that the unexpected often arises

in ultra races, especially the longer the distance that you choose to do.

And so I think that if you are planning to do like your first 50K, your first 50 mile,

your first 100 aside from in addition to knowing the course, knowing where the aid stations

are, you know, knowing the elevation profile of that, be prepared for the unexpected as

best you can and and have some tools in your bag that you can kind of use in order to

help you get over unexpected things or obstacles, whether it's like a mental motivation, you

might have your race goals A, B, and C. But if all those fail, what else is it that you

are doing the race for?

What motivates you?

I know recently I just, I didn't have, I had a pretty disappointing race at Lake Sonoma

and all three of my race goals went out the window.

But there were other things about doing that distance, being out there in that race,

you really helped me get to the finish line and and so I encourage you guys to do the

same thing, whether it's writing them down or just, you know, keeping them in your mind

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