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This article is from the running
Beginners' FAQ, by Ozzie Gontang with numerous contributions
by others.
3 Why running ? (the other reasons)
In running you are ultimately dependent only on yourself. It is your own
discipline that makes you run, and that provides the benefits you reap.
Running will increase your pride in yourself, and improve your relationship
with your body. You will surprise yourself with your capabilities and
reserves, achieve more than you thought possible.
Running gives you time to yourself. Even running with others you are
essentially alone. You will be more in contact with the world around you,
in all weathers and all lights, and more with yourself. Running gives you a
space to yourself, a time to think, to muse, an active form of meditation.
People may start running for health reasons, they persist because they
become runners.
Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness and
self-reliance. Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the
runner. He learns the harsh reality of his physical and mental limitations
when he runs. He learns that personal commitment, sacrifice and
determination are his only means to betterment. Runners only get promoted
through self-conquest.
Noel Carroll [as quoted by Noakes]
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