Comments on: Why I run https://therunningsoul.com/2016/01/why-do-i-run/ My running journey...upward and onward Thu, 04 Feb 2016 11:39:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Parul https://therunningsoul.com/2016/01/why-do-i-run/#comment-12625 Thu, 04 Feb 2016 11:39:32 +0000 http://therunningsoul.com/?p=1398#comment-12625 In reply to DEEPAK SONI.

Thank you. ?. Such is life

]]> By: DEEPAK SONI https://therunningsoul.com/2016/01/why-do-i-run/#comment-12621 Thu, 04 Feb 2016 09:06:24 +0000 http://therunningsoul.com/?p=1398#comment-12621 Wow 4.01.. Well done ….and this writeup is a beautiful poetic expression.
That extra 1 minute sounded like a poetic injustice… 🙂

]]> By: Parul https://therunningsoul.com/2016/01/why-do-i-run/#comment-12530 Fri, 29 Jan 2016 03:47:11 +0000 http://therunningsoul.com/?p=1398#comment-12530 In reply to Shiv Gahlot.

Thanks Shiv. I look out for you to read my post 🙂 great run in Dubai! Congratulations.

]]> By: Shiv Gahlot https://therunningsoul.com/2016/01/why-do-i-run/#comment-12517 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 16:58:32 +0000 http://therunningsoul.com/?p=1398#comment-12517 Missed reading your Mumbai report earlier, Parul. Situation now rectified.

I remember the 2015 race as a serious sufferfest, and yet I truly missed Mumbai this year, wishing I was there. Heard you guys had nice-ish weather.

Loved the Frankl references, and your insights on the virtue of suffering. Great read!

]]> By: Parul https://therunningsoul.com/2016/01/why-do-i-run/#comment-12431 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:13:29 +0000 http://therunningsoul.com/?p=1398#comment-12431 In reply to Raghu.

Ohhhhhhh lovely ?yes. It was a fun run! Thank you for reading

]]> By: Raghu https://therunningsoul.com/2016/01/why-do-i-run/#comment-12430 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 12:34:15 +0000 http://therunningsoul.com/?p=1398#comment-12430 I just realized that it was you whom I was running with in this SCMM, most of the time and finished in 4:01 as well 🙂 It was a pleasure running alongside. You were running pretty steady.
Raghu

]]> By: Parul https://therunningsoul.com/2016/01/why-do-i-run/#comment-12393 Wed, 20 Jan 2016 16:12:14 +0000 http://therunningsoul.com/?p=1398#comment-12393 In reply to Satish.

What an amazing quote from and amazing book. You’ve put it in perspective for me. Thank you for sharing!

]]> By: Satish https://therunningsoul.com/2016/01/why-do-i-run/#comment-12392 Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:51:50 +0000 http://therunningsoul.com/?p=1398#comment-12392 Well done and very well expressed . You’ll have days when the end result is better. Keep running joyously. Best, Satish
“Of course it was painful, and there were times when, emotionally, I just wanted to chuck it all. But pain seems to be a precondition for this kind of sport. If pain weren’t involved, who in the world would ever go to the trouble of taking part in sports like the triathlon or the marathon, which demand such an investment of time and energy? It’s precisely because of the pain, precisely because we want to overcome that pain, that we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive–or at least a partial sense of it. Your quality of experience is based not on standards such as time or ranking, but on finally awakening to an awareness of the fluidity within action itself.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

]]> By: Parul https://therunningsoul.com/2016/01/why-do-i-run/#comment-12386 Wed, 20 Jan 2016 09:07:39 +0000 http://therunningsoul.com/?p=1398#comment-12386 In reply to Abhijeet.

Wow. Congratulations. Each experience makes us stronger.

]]> By: Abhijeet https://therunningsoul.com/2016/01/why-do-i-run/#comment-12384 Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:57:56 +0000 http://therunningsoul.com/?p=1398#comment-12384 Amazing, went through exactly the same emotions and had a similar response from myself on my fourth attempt at the full in SCMM.

I guess it’s called hitting the Wall. 33- 36 kms. :-((

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