Race Report: The Rift Gravel Race Iceland

What makes a 200km ride around a volcano meaningful? It is a useless activity that has no practical purpose — I didn’t become a better person or get to know myself and other humans better or become more resilient, or experience transcendence. These are lessons I definitely learned in the previous decade of ultra-endurance. But now, I’m motivated by something else.

I think I am attracted to useless but difficult activities out of curiosity. I do things I think are worth doing to discover the fire in myself.