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This is a really weird gate keeping comment re "commitment".

As someone who was an ultra endurance rider (IE audax rides of 200/300/400/600/1200 km, where you stop only to sleep for the shortest sustainable time on the longer events), you are very much wrong. Your statements around .

There are plenty who complete these events who are skinny, and plenty who complete these events who are fat. The training load to maintain this level of fitness/endurance is high. The mental commitment is high. The sheer amount of energy required both during the event and to repair muscle damage after is huge. The next level down is the physical discomfort (I don't like the taste of water but I know I need it); the hallucinations, fear or depression that can kick in... But you still have 25% of event to go. Let's not forget those who get injured or have equipment failure and either wisely decide to DNF or drag themselves over the line.

Pray tell me how your jogging for what, two hours a day? Makes you more committed and enlightened.