Running returns us to our original nature - even past the primitive to the primordial. It's not a choice of motion to survive but the spontaneous joy of our expansion. We move as a communion with the natural world. That's simplicity. Some runs have specific training purposes to reach certain goals - and yet every goal and all our desires stem from a singular urge to belong to something greater than ourselves, to rejoin a community of spirit and know that our soul is matched to the soul of the world. Often there is no realization of this until our mind grows quiet in distant miles and we feel the soul's longing for something unknown yet achingly familiar. Our bodies know. The stillness of our soul knows. And that's the drive that keeps on the path - a knowing beyond the mind. Keep the goals and train hard and accordingly - but don't lose sight of the true simplicity of why we run. To return. Always to return.
Peace,
Eric
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