The Happy Runner: Love the Process, Get Faster, Run Longer
being a lifelong runner means making friends with your own fragility.
David Roche • The Happy Runner: Love the Process, Get Faster, Run Longer
Our experiences showed us that the key to a sustainable love of the running process was to practice a perspective that supports unconditional self-acceptance in the face of an uncertain running (and life) future.
David Roche • The Happy Runner: Love the Process, Get Faster, Run Longer
running will constantly remind you of your own mortality.
David Roche • The Happy Runner: Love the Process, Get Faster, Run Longer
The goal of a happy runner is developing a perspective that allows you to find the magic in the mundane.
David Roche • The Happy Runner: Love the Process, Get Faster, Run Longer
what if the starting point of building a lifelong happy runner is contemplation of the fragility of the human body and the finish line that awaits everyone, long before you’re forced to by injury or decline? What if affirmation of life comes most honestly from contemplation of death?