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If you compare yourself to other people in your age group, would that mean less of loss of identity?
by zwieback 3y ago
If you compare yourself to other people in your age group, would that mean less of loss of identity?
- jfengel 3y agoRunning for me has always been about myself. I was never competitive; I just wanted to set personal records. Of course, I was young and male and healthy, and just finishing put me in the 95th percentile of everybody. I could compare myself to an age group rather than everybody, but that too is a narrowing of identity. I could drop from marathons and do half-marathons, which are a far less ludicrous sport. Marathons really aren't good for you. It's more about being willing to endure those last 6 miles than actual fitness. A half marathon doesn't have a month-long recovery time. And completing it would still put me in a 90%+ bracket (of some poorly-defined, purely idiosyncratic notion).