Chatting with runners and non-runners alike, a debate that comes up from time to time is the so-called “runner personality”. Is there a particular personality that sets runners apart from non-runners? Do you have to be a “certain type of person”?
I don’t know if there is such a thing as a runner personality, but there are some traits that you could argue a lot of runners share. You might find runners to be goal-oriented, determined (stubborn?), competitive, self-critical while encouraging of others. But overall, I would have to say that runners are as diverse a bunch as the general population.
The only thing that all runners have in common, which also happens to be the thing to set them apart from non-runners is this:
One day, they didn’t say “I can’t.”
Some of them might have said “I wonder….”
All of them, at some point, said “I can,” and they did.
That’s it.
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