Getting Serious; The Road Is My Therapist

Since Manchester I have run two times. More than I have run after any marathon, within such short proximity to a completion thereof. Wednesday on the treadmill, 4 miles.

Today on the road, 8 miles at tempo pace. I felt like a XC runner finishing a race at the end. Strong push off, high knees, and great acceleration. The pain was gone. I felt a bit tight in the beginning, but this quickly abated.

But what I have to say here isn’t about me. It’s about my discovery of the most apt descriptions of running I have found.

One is Dr. George Sheehan’s Running & Being: The Total Experience. A storied book by a storied cardiologist, who knows what weaving a distance run into a man’s life means.

The other is today’s Endurance Planet Podcast, which I highly encourage all you download at www.enduranceplanet.com

I highly encourage all those whom are interested to check these grand sources out of their local reference desk, wherever it may be.

Running loosens the rough edges of my nerves.

As I sit my hamstrings ache.

Pure exertion cannot be replaced by skill or finesse.

Runner’s are always in pain or injured. It’s the ticket price, for low orbit-flying.

To say that to run is to fly is sensational. But its true.


And yet after all this, I’m still finding myself on the road.