I ran this race last year, my first 12-hour endurance event, and completed 48.49 miles. Prior to that, the longest distance I had run was a 50K (31 miles), so this was a personal best, and I was very grateful and happy with it. But somehow, falling shy of 50 miles made me wonder if I could run an official 50 miles in 12 hours. So going into this year’s race, that became my goal.