Outrun Pain with Heart

i need to run, i need to feel the air on my face and i need to feel my feet pounding the earth, to release the tension, to make me feel capable, powerful, free.

As runners, we live for the runs that make us realize why we go out there every day and push ourselves to painful new limits. Every run in between might suck, in fact most of the other runs are tedious and aren’t even remotely enjoyable. But every so often we are lucky enough to experience something great, and that’s what keeps us going day in and day out.

It takes a special kind of person to be a runner. In every other sport, you do it to hurt someone else. When you run, you do it to hurt yourself. It takes a special kind of mentality to survive in this sport.

Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: Life.