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A marathon that got bored of being reasonable and kept going.
means A foot race longer than the traditional 26.2-mile marathon, often stretching to 50K, 100 miles, or beyond.
from Simple carpentry: 'ultra-' (Latin for 'beyond') bolted onto 'marathon' itself — the word that already commemorates the legendary run from Marathon to Athens. So the term is really just 'beyond-beyond-reasonable-distance,' a 20th-century coinage built the moment runners realized 26.2 miles wasn't the limit, just a convenient place to stop naming things.
- official start
- anything longer than 26.2 miles counts
- popular distance
- 100 miles is a common gold standard
- toenails
- frequently optional by the finish line
- mental shift
- pace matters less than refusing to quit