I did football for four years, baseball for five years, I did triathlons, I swam, I did everything. We never sat in front of the TV playing video games. I preferred to be outside. I think we just didn't give distance running as much attention as it needed. I mean if only 12.6 scholarships are going to be given for running and like 80 are for football, then you're naturally going to focus on what you have more opportunity in.
People run and race for myriad reasons.
I love competing and the satisfaction after a hard workout or a great race will always bring me back. I would go out and just run a 30-mile trail run if it didn't make me feel like crap for a week. Well I'm pretty sure that I've got that one in the bag. Yeah, I wanted to be a great runner. Hey, I'm not cutting it in football, let's do something I'm good at.