Ultra Running as a Psychedelic Experience

This is basically a trip report from my first ultra marathon. 5 months ago the longest distance I had ever run was 21km; last week I did 93km, and next month I'm going for 180km. My physical training has been minimal, like maybe 25km per week of running on average. I've been focused instead on the psychological and the physiological, pushing to train my body-mind for the impact of the experience.

I'm not an expert in ultra running by any stretch of the imagination, and I don't provide much in the way of tangible advice here; I am, however, a connoisseur of altered states of consciousness, which are I think at the root of the ultra experience...and arguably the essence of human nature. This is the perspective that I wish I had found while I was preparing. 

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