I put my earphones in, not to listen to music but to muffle any outside noise. I wanted to go into the hole as deeply as I could. I wanted to experience it fully. If you have never run beyond what you thought you were capable of, be it a 5k, 10k, marathon or longer, this may seem hard to understand. I had run nearly six marathons to get here. I wasn’t gonna blast music and try and run around it or run from it. I was going into it and through it. Almost immediately, it started to happen. The voices in my head were loud, yet they really didn’t say anything, they just conveyed a sense of
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