Just Runners

Tomorrow is Clydes 10k a fun little race that I'm really looking forward to. It's literally minutes from my home, my friends and family will be there and I'm ready to run. Races are more than events where one sees whom the fastest is (yes it is that too)they are a gathering, a forming of a tribe to come togthers and run in a pack. Chris McDougall points this out in his book Born to Run and in many following essays. Races are a soul gathering of like minded people who feel the need to test body and spirit against the elements,there fears and perceived weakness and flaws and finally against another opponent. In the end there is a winner but never a loser. We're all just runners.