This is year 7. And the question keeps coming up, why do we keep coming back? We consistently come in the bottom third of the results, we frequently get tired and only twice have we successfully had someone on the course for all 24 hours. You'd think that sometime during the previous 6 years, we would have figured out the secret formula of cliff bars, goo, gatorade and spaghetti that would allow us to actually compete, or we would have given up. I mean you can only take so much disappointment... 
Maybe one more year will do it, and hopefully the elvi will be back.