What makes you tick?
A fair question to runners, what makes you tick? What's so damn enticing about the whole endeavor? I ask myself this quite often. I didn't grow up with runners in my family, it was nothing that I was ever exposed to at a young age. I grew up in a football obsessed family and community. I've alluded to this before in earlier posts, but until 21 years old, anything over 1 mile was long distance running. I am not even sure if I ran for 30 minutes straight before I was about 23. To have predicted that in 2018 that I'd be training for my first marathon is about as bizarre as it gets. Initially there was zero desire to venture towards 26.2, very naive and humble beginnings. When you hear somebody say, "running is an addiction," I'd gladly co sign that statement. If a licensed psychologist was to break down the psychology of endurance runners, there would be many parallels to an addictive personality, for a lack of better terms. I've found the r