Brandon Hudgins: Why run?

All runners evidently get asked this question, "So, why do you run?"  It may even be followed by my favorite line, "What are you running from?"  Which of course always garners the response "I don't know, if I knew I probably would've stopped."  We get bombarded by the question almost daily from people of all shapes and sizes.  So it is a question all runners have to be comfortable answering.  If you are like myself, many runners also find themselves at times asking, "Self, why are you doing this?  You know you don't have to do it.  So why don't you just stop?  There are other activities that aren't nearly as hard."  All runners have to remind themselves from time to time why we do it.  Running is so simple and so ingrained in our genetics, yet the answer to why we do it can become very complicated. Read more 

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