If you put a thousand runners in a room, you’ll likely overhear a cacophony of discussions about shoes, how many miles they ran that day and, especially, what exactly they’re training for. What the next big running event is. Because no matter how much they run, they want to keep right on running. A runner’s gotta run.
There’s just something about running that motivates and pushes and makes someone want to go farther, run faster. And even when they’re not Forrest Gump-ing it on tracks and trails and pavement, runners spend their downtime searching for a race to sign up for that’s even more challenging than the last. They get the running bug, so that the next run is a mere stepping stone to the one after that. You could say that they all have a bad case of the runs.
We asked several seasoned runners at all different levels what’s on their running bucket list. Here’s what they told us.
Doing the Marine Corps Marathon would be cool. It’s in Washington, DC, and you run around all the major stuff: the Capitol, the White House, the Washington monument — all of downtown Washington. And the person who gives you your medal is a marine.
I also want to do a 50- or 100-miler. Just because it’s 50 or 100 miles.