The marathon is not easy.

People often say to me, " Oh you are an ultra runner the marathon must be easy for you", but that is so far from the truth. Unless you are world class, you do not run an "ultra" with the same kind of intensity that you do a marathon. Of course you know you can run the distance, but you are trying to run it much faster. So running a marathon is never easy, but I try to have as much fun with it as I do all my races no matter what the distance.