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But why?

• js2 9y ago
  Why run? As someone with more than a couple dozen marathons under his belt, 12 hour and 24 hour races, hundred milers and a hundred k’s, I’ve had lots of time to contemplate this question, sometimes to myself and sometimes out loud with other runners. And the answer I’ve come to is: there is no why. Some of us do it to stay in shape, some for the challenge, some to silence inner demons, some as a form of meditation, or to give our minds time for quiet contemplation. Myself? I guess I do it for all of these reasons at different times, but at the end of the day, I do it because it gives me joy.