After watching the DVD "Running on the Sun" Coach Sporer decided he had to do a ultra marathon. I thought he was nuts but I said sure lets do it together. He went online and found an ultra close to home but as we found out later it was not an easy one. We were already in shape from our normal running and marathon training. We knew that after we did our marathons we would have to kick it up a knotch. We trained for nearly 9 months with this event as the end goal. During the 9 months of training Coach Sporer ran his first marathon in order to learn what if felt like to run through "the wall". Coach Pfleiger completed his 11th marathon and 4th Boston Marathon. After Boston is when we really began to focus exclusively on the Mason Dixon 100k. We both spent weekends in May on the Mason Dixon Trail running training runs up to 31 miles. On race day we were lucky enough to have the help of Coach Sporers brother Rob and our friend Bob Hutchinson to be our support crew during the event. Since this was an "unsupported" event we made every effort in planning to make sure we had good support from Bob and Rob. This was a big mental boost to see them every few miles as well as a physicial boost to have food and water and a change of clothes and shoes.