Spencer Wilson
As someone whose running shoes rarely leave the closet, I am both in awe of, and perplexed by, my endurance athlete friends. Particularly hard to grasp is that their love of running marathons or cycling up mountains isn’t in spite of those efforts being so gruelling. They enjoy them precisely for that reason.
Humans, as a species, often think of ourselves as intrinsically lazy, even if scientists prefer terms like “effort averse”. But we know that putting effort in can be deeply rewarding, to the extent that we may choose a more difficult process even if the outcome remains identical.…
