12 mad things all long distance runners experience when training for a long distance running event –
1) Social life! What’s that?
2) We start seeing life from a distance, a “long” distance. Everything else suddenly seems so trivial.
3) Boy! Can we eat! People regret inviting us over.
4) We whine and crib about black toenails but secretly want others to ask us how we got them.
5) If we find anything to talk about apart from running it seems superficial.
6) The house is messy. Well…isn’t that how a house lived in supposed to be? Running clothes are always well stacked.
7) We dream of reaching the finish line all the time.
8) We secretly fear – “If I have to, where will I dump my load?” Ughh, Portaloos!
9) We suddenly find ourselves connecting with (otherwise disconnected) distance runners on FB.
10) We often go back and read (portions of) “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running” and “Born to Run”.
11) We pray and hope that our non-runner friends will somehow get it.
12) Every new song we hear is evaluated on the good-run-song-or-not scale.
If you can think of more quirks, then feel free to add it to the comment box and I would edit the list 🙂
“If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon. If you want to talk to God, run an Ultra.” – Dean Karnazes (American ultra runner, who has run 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 consecutive days).
11 Comments
You often beat your alarm while getting up on mornings on weekends 🙂
Vikram yes 🙂
Guilty of 6,9 and 10! 🙂
🙂
Not expect to see u in these running ava tar after 13years.but it great and makes me excited much to take up running also.first I will target half marathon and I need ur inputs much.i hope u will help me.how to start training and wat will be first month duration training.wen u developed these running habits and aim.in 1998 no sign of running excitement in u.how was arpana rai.were she?wen was Delhi Marathon will happened these year?can u please gv me routine scheduled fr me in my first month of preparation and how to increased my endurance level?I’m attaching my email I’d Karim.ben2323@gmail.com.hope u will reply
When my kids’ school calendar is published, first thing to search is if there is a PTA meet on Saturdays (my long run days)
hahahaha yes
You plan for the SCMM like it was a board exam!
Schedules are drawn!, There is stress!!!
hahaha Anand so true this was for me!
I started running 7 months back and yesterday I ran my first international marathon.completed 21.08 KMS in 1 hour 58 mins 48 secs.
Life is like never before..
I feel connected to your articles.
Thanks
Thank you so much Siddharth. And congrats for your first half with an awesome timing 🙂