Scott Loveless wrote: >On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Miserere <[email protected]> wrote: >> Some people are masochists, some are highly competitive alphas. A few are >> both. >> >> Then there are sheep. And also lemmings. >> >> I've participated in organised mountain bike races. Sure, I could have >> ridden those course without the other participants at any other time, >> but I never pushed myself as hard as when I was racing. "The pursuit >> of the breaking point" is what I used to call it. I never did reach >> it, which might be for the best. > >I think competition is different. Many of the people who run marathon >"races" aren't there to compete.
There are two reasons people run marathons: To compete (even against oneself and one's previous best time) To pretend to compete (to be able to tell friends "I ran a marathon!") -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
