Re: Marathon question

> 1. What motivated you to start running marathons?

I thought it would be a good challenge for me, hadn't done anything
challenging, except for work, in a while.  I had only been running
consitantly for a couple of years and just told my self as a News Years
Resolution that I would run a marathon.  11 months later I did.

> 2. What motivates you to continue running marathons?
The challenge, the competition, the fact that running makes me feel great.
I feel like shit if I don't run regularly.  I did a 2nd marathon to compete
against myself.  I know I can't win one, but I can try to become faster by
training hard and pushing my self to limits I thought were impossible.

The training and competition (within myself) gives me an edge that has been
absent since high school, confidence, and it strokes my ego ("I can do
anything I want" type of feeling).  The high after a marathon is better than
any other drug I did while in college.

I don't feel normal if I don't run, and running Marathons is the pennicle of
running for me.
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> If you could include any other background information, that would be
helpful.

I'm 29, 5'6", 145 lbs.  I live in Seattle.  I love Phish.

Tom
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> Matt
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