Trail Running and Other Insane Notions. . .

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.

Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up.
It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.

It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle
when the sun comes up you'd better be running.

Yeah, yeah. Whatever, more like sloths, heehee. . . run with me.

 

  "The only reason I take up jogging is so that I can hear heavy breathing every morning."  Badum-ching. Ooooh.

"Running is real and relatively simple. . . but it ain't easy, and you're pretty much as dumb as a weed blowing in the wind."

 "Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired - morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body would never tire. You've got to make the mind take over and keep going." Patton said this, but personally I think drinking tequila has about the same effect.

"No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for running success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes."

Okay, so now you know some of the weirdness a trail runner goes through, or at least now you know some wierd quotes.  I hate running and I love it; I hate being stiff the next day, yet I love it so, so much.  

We runners are a breed apart; part monkey, part Bigfoot, part wild boar, and part Indian.  Running has kept me sane and relatively insane for all these years.  Anyway, have fun at least being in the woods.

Love,

Mirabal