Shucks, you're just trying to be nice!
I'll still accept luck. Luck is the one factor we can't control, and it can turn an expected outlook around completely.
I wonder what everyone else's experience is with multiple long hikes? On Sunday I did my last city street 22 mile hike with my backpack on -- it was actually 24 miles because I figured I should at least technically have done a hike of that length before doing the rim to rim 24 miles. And I'd guess there was somewhere between 1,250 to 1,500 feet elevation gain involved total.
But my point is -- like ALL 22 mile hikes I ever take (and I've done over 20 of them between actual outdoors hikes and training hikes since 2004), they are ALL TIRING!
My hypothesis for others to comment on -- no matter what kind of shape you're in, no matter how many long hikes like that you've ever gone through, any hike of THAT length is STILL going to be somewhat exhausting.
What say y'all?
