if you want a bit of an insight on why i run... why i gravitate towards the long, mountain, crazy races or runs with friends... read a blog by Jill Homer... an endurance bicyclist.
http://www.arcticglass.blogspot.com/
the blog called "why"... written today? 8/19/10.
towards the end, she really captures why choose/run the really difficult stuff and why not just pound out intervals and do lots of specific training to maximize speed, etc... why choose the mtns and alaska and crazy weather and etc... why not choose courses/distances you can really excel at (i.e. higher finish placement, age group wins, etc).
it's truly about the experience... the art of it... tho i don't think in "art" terms... just being out there completely submersed/immersed in nature, God's amazing creation. i love how small i feel there.
kz
About Me
- skhx
- we are 30somethings in the process of reinventing our wheels with relocation, shorties, fitness, evolving relationships with our outdoor passions, careers, loved ones, and life in general. this is a time for reinvention of our individual and collective wheels. it's our lives we're living now... not preparing to live... we're preparing, indeed, for something far greater, but now is the time, not later.