Trail running challenges: What to do when you have no more why?

Brad Glover was the Scenic Rim Ultra race leader at the time and at about the 60km mark, he decided that he didn’t have a good enough reason as to why he wanted to continue. He kept telling me ‘I don’t have my why anymore’ and said the same thing to his wife on the phone as he walked off in the direction he’d just come in. 

This image captures Glover, his back to the camera, returning to the previous checkpoint to officially withdraw.

Moments earlier, Glover crossed paths with the runner who was in second place and they briefly spoke, Glover saying he wasn’t in the right headspace. He wished the runner luck for the hardest section of the course. 

Camera Specs

Canon EOS R5 with RF 70-200 f/2.8 @ 200mm, f/7.1, 1/1250 ISO 800