Really enjoyed this. Having just started running I feel I’m starting to ‘get’ it and this article was very motivating. But how do you not be one of those people who only ever talks about how great running is? Maybe keeping up the cigs/cheese/poetry etc. do you want to be known as a ‘runner’? I don’t think so. Running as catalyst for better living rather than running as personality.
Really enjoyed this. Having just started running I feel I’m starting to ‘get’ it and this article was very motivating. But how do you not be one of those people who only ever talks about how great running is? Maybe keeping up the cigs/cheese/poetry etc. do you want to be known as a ‘runner’? I don’t think so. Running as catalyst for better living rather than running as personality.
Couldn’t agree more!! I run to smoke, and I smoke to stop myself ever becoming a ‘runner’
Sprawl lengthens the legs; it trains greyhounds on liver and beer.
Sprawl almost never says Why not? With palms comically raised
nor can it be dressed for, not even in running shoes worn
with mink and a nose ring. That is Society. That’s Style.
Sprawl is more like the thirteenth banana in a dozen
or anyway the fourteenth.
- Les Murray