Another post about Running...

How is it that people can love running? Bill Bowerman said this to his Oregon running team, including the great American distance runner Steve Prefonataine, "Running, one might say is basically an absurd pastime upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life."  In this one statement Bowerman says first how ridiculous running is and makes it seem pointless, then tells us that running can help us truly discover the meanings of our lives.  Obviously it is more than "an absurd pastime," and has greater meaning, but what is it, and why do people love it so much?