“All that pain was immediately replaced with reward,” Liller said. Liller’s mental fortitude and habit of constant training beyond his comfort zone worked to get him across the finish line. I tried to run and was quickly brought to a walk and was almost in tears from the pain.” “The final day my ankles were swollen the size of baseballs, my knee hurt so bad that I couldn’t walk down any stairs.
“For the rest of the race any downhill running was so painful is was almost unbearable, but I refused to quit because that’s not what I do,” said Liller. He was on day two of the three-day race, slogging through foot-deep mud in the Monongahela National Forest, a remote area of the Appalachian Mountains known for rugged landscape with spectacular views, rivers, blueberry thickets, highland bogs, and open areas with ancient exposed rocks and boulders. Avery Liller slipped and slammed his knee into a rock.
On mile 35 of the 91.1-mile West Virginia Trilogy ultramarathon, West Virginia Army National Guard (WVARNG) Soldier Cpl.
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