• Running helps me to feel good about myself by giving me goals and objectives that only I can accomplish. 
  • Running helps me lose weight and maintain my weight at a healthy level.  I have found that my body needs to run as a way to keep my metabolism healthy.
  • Running provides me with social activities as I run/race with other people.
  • Running makes me feel good both physically and mentally.
  • Running keeps me young.
  • Running keeps my body at a good to excellent fitness level.
  • Running provides me with a positive contact with nature as I run trails along the water, in the trees, in the mountains - any where.
  • I am able to participate in a larger thing (running) than me - something shared all over the world.
  • Running allows me the time to examine my life - running is like a meditate to me.
  • I am physically built to run.  I can run long and far without physical problems.
  • Running helps me feel whole.