It starts with the mind and ends with the body.
What’s on a runner’s mind? The answer to that depends on when you ask the question. What people think about when everything is still easy and what they think about when the going gets tough differ immensely. At the beginning of a run, the mind is free to wander yet when the session is in full swing, everything is focused on running and one’s body: ‘It starts with the mind and ends with the body’.
But this section is not just about what the runners think about. It also delves into what bothers them, which nation gets most bothered about which things, what reasons they have not to run, and what keeps them going.