Quote Originally Posted by OakLeaf View Post
What did it take for the rest of you to think of yourselves as real runners ... or do we all struggle with that?
I often don't feel like a real runner either--I'm not very fast, I seldom enter races, I get bored just running on the roads for too long without mixing things up, and I don't do super-long distances. That's why I was surprised when I went on a run with my neighbor from upstairs and she said I seemed like "more of a real runner" than her--we were running some laps around a local park, and I was the one jumping over benches, zigzagging around trees and doing other random shenanigans while she was mostly just running. It was weird to be described as a "real" runner when I don't necessarily think of myself that way.