Runners, in general, are romantics.
We value emotion over calculation, aesthetic feeling over controlled inquiry, messiness over clarity, epiphany over argument, transcendence over facts, insight over pragmatism.
Like Catholics with their rosaries, we go through the motions and the rituals, bead by bead: tempo, interval, long run, easy run. We stay at them, hoping that our piety will be rewarded with a glimpse of what? — that which cannot be seen or articulated, but can only be felt.
— http://thelogicoflongdistance.blogspot.com/2012/02/running-as-romanticism.html
