You can pretend to be intelligent or wealthy. You can rent a lifestyle for a week. For a few hours or a few days, you can deceive those around you, and for a while, yourself.
As a runner, you have to face the truth about yourself on a regular basis, and it makes you more honest. You can't pretend to be faster than you are. You can't pretend that you are better prepared than you are. You cannot pretend to be a runner; you must run.
In the end, being a runner is no more complicated than that.
To be a runner, you simply have to run.
It's not enough to dream about being a runner. It's not enough to plan on being a runner. Sooner or later, you have to run.
And if you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get.
You just run.
