100 Miles in 100 Words

Norman Marcotte
1 min readMar 31, 2024

Running by the numbers.

Photo by Tom Dils on Unsplash

First mile and my apprehension is so high. Mile 10 of my first ultra-marathon is when I start to get my groove. The physical and emotional roller-coaster starts at the 31st mile. The hills, rocks and roots take a pounding on my legs. I hit rock-bottom and I start the walk in my own personal hell by the time I reach the 63rd mile. I get out of the darkness and into the light as I start running consistently again at mile 83. Tears roll down my face as I cross the finish line exhausted but elated at mile 100.

I wrote this micro-fiction story while experimenting with my writing. The aim was to have a story in 100 words where every number in the story corresponds to a distance in the race and the number of word it has reached in the story.

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Norman Marcotte
Norman Marcotte

Written by Norman Marcotte

Writer, runner, mentor, dreamer. Author of "Take 10 and Reach the Boston Marathon" and the children's book "Frankenstein's Science Project".

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