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God I love running
This is plagiarism.
On Strava, I’m following both amateur and elite runners. I recently followed Charles Hicks, who runs for Standford.
My son, who runs for high school, told me about Charles Hicks.
Last night Hicks posted this on Strava:
Oh my God, this summarizes it all so well: God I love running.
No extra words are needed, and no punctuation.
I’m just an amateur runner approaching middle age (how do you define middle age?).
But God I love running.
Today my son and I ran a local Turkey Trot run in Orange County, California.
I failed pretty badly at my ambitious sub-17 min target but I felt so-so happy. I think I could’ve run some 10–15 seconds faster if I was more rested and hadn’t run seventy miles in the days preceding today’s fun race. Still, I couldn’t have run under 17 minutes. Not yet.
I was so happy. I’m happy now, writing this.
