Persevering, though, is what runners and race organizers do. And while the weather gods can be unpredictable, the return of the traditional, bucket list course is back for this year's 38th running.
Lily Phillips revealed in a recent interview the emotional and physical toll of her experience in a documentary where she slept with over 100 men in one day.
"Some of it is timeout situation, how many timeouts I have. Time and score is somewhat important. You don't have a lot of time for out-of-bounds calls, we got one the other night. [Assistant coach] Beau [Levesque] and [head video coordinator Michael Wexler] were on it real quick and we were able to get that one."
If there's one thing I've learned from helming InsideHook's annual prognosticatory report the last couple years, it's not that our country is going down the toilet... instead, my main takeaway is that life is truly all about perspective.