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15. Epilogue: guest post

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Again a guest post, from the one who normally has the last word!        The race is done, but I feel bound to leave a few words here, for two reasons: Primo, I can tell how it really went behind the scenes. Objectively, that is. Secondo, I have to clear my name: Flo never mentioned the trophy he got from me for finishing the race, despite my humble sole request for his blog to include it in his story. One task alone he had!      So, how did it go?  A few weeks before the race...           I was able to relate to his training until he started with those many kilometres. After a while, he moved from counting kilometres to counting hours.          “You need to be able to stay afoot for about four hours”, he told me, but I bet the real reason was only to confuse the sh*t out of me. But, to be fully sincere: do you remember when you were a child and people of 30 or 50 looked the same to you? Just plain old, I mean. The same for me with these distances: they were all infinite, so counting th