The farther away I got from road marathoning and that PR set in 2009, the more intimidating and daunting it felt to try it again.

The farther away I got from road marathoning and that PR set in 2009, the more intimidating and daunting it felt to try it again.
Training and race-day execution can make the difference between those who stiffly struggle and those who smoothly speed up toward the finish.
The Oakland Marathon followed by a long run on Mount Diablo gave me an apples-and-oranges kind of comparison between road marathoning and trail ultrarunning, making me contemplate, which is “harder”? Which is better for me, and which do I like more?