A Glance Into the Mind of a Track Runner

You know, something came to my attention recently, something that i feel must be discussed because it questions all that we have learned about the human mind and phyce. Why do people who run cross country feel the inability to quit, even when they are not running cross country.

A rescent poll of fellow winter track runners, WINTER TRACK may i reiterate (very cold), revealed that only the ones who had not run cross country would be willing to quit the team, all those that had run cross country said that they were afraid to quit the team. Now, let us look at this situation a bit more closely. 87% of the people (boys only so far polled) say that they hate the sport of running with a passion, myself included, and yet feel the irrational, inexplicable inablity to stop running. Day after day, we board the shuttle over to the track. Why? Because for some strange reasion, our track happens to reside at the middle school, why would the highschool track field be at the high school, that would make too much sense.

We arrive at the track, we are given a 45 minute speech by head coach Campbell, and we begin our workout. For those of you not familiar with track and field, there are three divisions: Sprints, Distance, Lifting, the hardest being Distance, funnily enough, i run distance. Why haven't I been slapped yet? This question has puzzled cross country runners since the beginning of time. After every workout everyone in Distance division, this "Cross Country Cult" if you will, every single person begins their daily tirade about how distance sucks, should have stayed home. However, none of us seems to posses the god damn abiltiy to stop freaking running? AYY DIOS MIO, WHAT THE HELL!!!!!! I could go on forever, i just ponder, what went wrong with the people that run, this is most definately not normal. But something else is true:

through this expieriene, i have learned that human beings can learn to turn off feelings and emotions on command, because after a while, you just get anesthesized to the pain, but it's still there.

The point of this rant: Don't do track. It's too late for some of us, but you still may be able to save yourself