Trying to figure out how I feel about Ultrarunning not being such a unique thing anymore. The number of people running Ultra's has exploded.

The two Rocky Raccoon events are going to cap at 750. I would never have thought in a million years those kind of numbers would be out there running.

Those numbers make it seem like a big city marathon with all the bells and whistles, instead of the low key intimate thing it seems like it used to be.

I've always had a voice in my head saying," Shouldn't I be running for the sake of running.....not to feed my ego with sheer numbers of races finished, or to have a time goal for a race".

I'm torn