Bighorn 100 — My WHY In my opinion, the WHY is everything for a 100. When the going gets tough, having my why is what keeps any doubt from seeping into my mind and makes the finish line all but a certainty.  Simply put, I did this one for me. Less simply put, I wanted to go deep, get fully present, and surrender to the headspace that I’ve only ever found mid-100. Within that, my intention was to be curious and hope I could learn about life and myself within that space. Most of all, I hoped to find a lesson of self-love. And so, to be open to said lesson, my why was to do this race and embrace all that came with it as an act of loving myself. My prior why’s were out there with me at Bighorn too, and always will be when I run a 100 (or other goals):  • When I was in my darkest depressive episodes consumed by the spiral of unaliving myself, I used to tell myself: “If I can make it through this, I can do anything. I can climb any mountain, ski any line, and I can run 100 miles.” That t...