Smart-ass answers to annoying questions about running

     This is funny so had to share.
Shared from https://rigbag.wordpress.com/2015/05/01/10-annoying-questions-people-ask-distance-runners-and-suggested-answers/

10 Annoying Questions People Ask Distance Runners, and Suggested Answers.

Q1. Isn’t all that running bad for you?

A1. Well it certainly isn’t as good as, say, sitting on the couch stuffing my face with pizza and beer, while chain-smoking, but hopefully I’ll survive.

Q2. Won’t you be sorry when you are 60 and your knees are fucked?

A2. No, I won’t. My knees may or may not be fucked when I’m 60, but I’ll have some damn fine memories of when they were parts of a well-oiled machine. Yours will probably be in great shape. Like a nuns conscience.

Q3. Running those distances must be so hard – why would you do that?

A3. Because I can. Because I want to. Because an easy life isn’t worth living. Because I want to see how epic I can be. Because it’s so hard. Because nobody asks me stupid questions while I’m running.

Q4. How far is a marathon?

A4. Depends – a nearby marathon, or a faraway one?

Q5. Are you running away from something?

A5. Yes – assholes. Gotta go.

Q6. Don’t you get tired?

A6. No, never. I’m as fresh at the end of a 100k as I was when I started. Sometimes it takes 10 strong men to restrain me from going back and doing it again.

Q7. Don’t you think you’re a bit obsessed with running?

A7. Sorry, did you say something? I didn’t hear you, I was thinking about running.

Q8. If you run so much, how come you’re not skinny?

A8. Because every time I shag your mother, she gives me a biscuit.

Q9. What time did you do?

A9. Mindyourownfuckingbusiness time.

Q10. I was thinking of doing a marathon, I’m pretty fit, it can’t be that hard, can it?

A10. You’re right, it isn’t. It’s dead easy. In fact, if I were you, I wouldn’t even bother training.
Let me know how you get on.

Nice quote for the weekend.

                   What we do in life echoes in eternity.

                         

The best thing one can do when it is raining is to let it

     It has been raining at least daily, if not several times a day, for a week now.  Flooding is predicted in several areas.  This must be what it is like to live in the Northwest US! It is so unlike Colorado.  I miss the sun.
     Snow is even predicted for this weekend. I am volunteering at a race on Saturday at one of the waterstops.  Standing in the rain for 3+ hours will make it a memorable morning. Kudos to those runners.
     At least the weather has gotten me out of mowing and yard work for the week; always a silver lining to all of these clouds.

Proof

Here is proof that I finished the Colorado marathon last Sunday. I am pictured with a fellow training-group friend. I don't look as bad as I felt at that moment. Not bad for a couple of 63 year-olds!  I got to meet his wife and son there at the finish line.  They are nice people.  Runners are nice people.

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     It is good to be home from Fort Collins.  Charleigh is glad to see me, I think, although she had a great weekend with my daughter Kate.
     The race was very hard.  I hit the wall at mile 21, but still was able to finish the marathon with a respectable time.  Next time, though.....
      I really need to do yard work...mowing, spring clean up, weeding, etc.  but luckily for me, it is raining today so I don't get to! Isn't that sad?
           

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
                               Sir Edmund Hillary

If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would not work.  But we are not creatures of reason.  We are creatures of passion.
                                 Noel Carroll

Happy Star Wars Day, and May the 4th be with you.

Running is my meditation.

     Sunday is my last big race for quite a while so I can get back to running for fun instead of for training.  I can't wait.  I am tired and achy, and worried about the high altitude at the start, not a good way to go into a race, but now is as good a time as any.  I will finish.

"A lot of people think they look slow, or fat, or sweaty. Don't let any of that stop you. Among runners, you are golden." Kara Goucher, two-time U.S. Olympian RUNNING TURNS ANY OPEN PLACE INTO MY CHAPEL "Running turns any open place into my chapel. The hour I spend each day as an ascetic, short of water and feeling the slight discomfort of genuine effort, provides me with the strength to know that I can live with less than the world would have me believe." Dean Ottati, The Runner and the Path: An Athlete's Quest for Meaning in Postmodern Corporate America Shared from: The runner's source for daily inspiration... Gibson's Daily Running Quote

Interesting thought.

"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently."---Bill Watterson

                                    shared from The Mind Unleashed