I've heard that many ppl only set pr's on races that served a political cause for them personally, such as if a family member died in old bombing and they ran their butt off "for" their family member who died.
Is this true?
How about in your case?
Do you run harder if the races purpose is some incident that effects your life?
Probably because they aren't just running for themselves, but for a grater cause. Like what we see at the Olympics. They are just competing for their glory but for their nations glory.
That makes sense! Although there are still runners who only care about self anyways. I totally get your drift about some folks having more 1 one reason to race, or running for vengeance. .
It's kinda like running on pure hate.
Haha yes. The Infamous 800 meter thread.
Although having hate in your heart is unhealthy, it can be effective.
Interesting you bring this up as I plan on Running the OKC Memorial Marathon as my first road marathon this spring. I picked it because I grew up in the area and personally knew people affected/killed. It will also be a "hometown" crowd even though I have not lived in Oklahoma for over a decade. Anyhow not sure whether I will run faster (is not a super fast course and the weather can totally suck) but it does have meaning to me which is motivating.
RastaMon wrote:
Interesting you bring this up as I plan on Running the OKC Memorial Marathon as my first road marathon this spring. I picked it because I grew up in the area and personally knew people affected/killed. It will also be a "hometown" crowd even though I have not lived in Oklahoma for over a decade. Anyhow not sure whether I will run faster (is not a super fast course and the weather can totally suck) but it does have meaning to me which is motivating.
Careful bro i ran like crap there. I did have an older couple (the man was in one of the bombings) come up to after the race and start crying because they were so touched that we were running so hard for them. They came up to me as I was looking for a college friend to say "screw this race lets get drunk."
Was a pretty touching race though. I liked the talk and moment of silence before the race. Pretty congested on the start though it seemed like.
My best race was the weekend after lil peep died so I guess so.