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I will give a big eye roll from the CFS/Long Covid club.

And I wonder if CFS exists to some extent in everyone who isn't doing ultramarathons ... in other words the nervous system prevents the average person from running 100km a day (or being able to get to that point) BUT... doesn't stop them doing daily life stuff, or keeping basically fit.

I am not sure lazy is even a thing.

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There is no paradox inherent here. What people colloquially call laziness could well be a mental imbalance, physical disability, combination of the two.

The reality is that the world isn't fluffy rainbows. Some people just get dealt a bad hand and they're not as capable as others.

I know a number of very average people who have completed ultramarathons. If you're just trying to finish and not win then pretty much anyone can do it as long as they put in the training time. There's no real nervous system inhibition.

> There's no real nervous system inhibition.

I think they're talking about the will to make it, not the ability to.

Ultramarathoning is, IMO, often misunderstood. However, volunteering at an ultramarathon aid station is a great way to get exposed to the sport, since you'll get to see a wide variety of people participating, whereas if you only know one or two ultra runners you may assume everyone is like they are. UltraSignup [0] is one way to search out ultras for which you may want to volunteer.

[0] https://ultrasignup.com/events/search.aspx

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