Mark Dowdle

“this is a perfect example of how this weekend is going to go because if I can go through this experience with a smile and see it as every obstacle is just an opportunity to try something new and experience this adventure, in a different way that is not the way I envisioned it. It's not the way everybody else envisioned it. But who's to say this is a worse way to experience it?”

“the pilot looks at me with a little smile on his face and he's like, 'Don't tell anybody I said this.' But that 45minute trip that it usually takes to get here. We got you here in 20 minutes.”

“A backyard ultra is when you run 4.167 miles or 6.7 kilometers every hour on the hour until one person's left.”

“I was there 15 minutes before the race started.”