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Why We Run – John Burkett

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Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2013

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

John Burkett interviews runners from all walks of life and discovers that there are as many reasons WHY we run as there are people, come common threads that exist with all runners and that our reasons change with the different seasons of life.

Transcript

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0:00.0

People rattle off different times and distances and be honest, I don't even know exactly what

0:19.1

half of those mean.

0:21.1

I don't even know what real fast is, but I know I love running.

0:28.1

Nothing that I've ever done in my past sets me up to like something like this.

0:39.6

Running was something I never ever considered.

0:46.1

So why do I do it?

0:48.2

Why do I run?

0:54.2

Running is going to be different from my faith, but my faith, sometimes they can come in

1:01.3

closing to one another because I am believing one thing.

1:05.9

His poppers are near and there's a reason why God wants me to run, name me to meet somebody.

1:12.5

Back in August 2009, my father-in-law fell off of a silo and it took him ten months to

1:17.4

be returned to a new normal because he's not fully recovered.

1:23.0

I kind of just put it in perspective that how quickly your life can change and my wife

1:28.3

and I we milked his cows for ten months and after milking his cows until he recovered,

1:35.8

my wife said, you know, for doing that, you can focus on your running for a year or two

1:40.0

if you want.

1:41.0

So this is kind of my chance, you know, this is my opportunity.

1:44.6

I was sick all the time with the doctors and I was like, oh, it's test her for cystic

1:47.7

fevers.

1:48.7

I probably wouldn't live long enough to graduate from high school.

1:51.2

Because I decided, look, I've kind of had enough of being sick.

1:54.5

So I decided I'm going to start running.

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