Easy

For the second time this week, some early morning walkers commented that I make running look easy as I ran past them. This time, I grinned and said, "Its not.....".

This is an interesting thing about distance running. It is such a simple concept. The imperative is: run, run long. Yet, it can be very hard, as the week's miles pile up, or the miles already run during a particular work out accumulate. Somehow, hard does not matter. In fact, in a world almost completely given over to the easy, hard redeems and purifies.

Distance running is hard and because of this fact, it is necessary.