Favorite Ads

If you flip through running or triathlon magazines, you'll find some really interesting or inspiring or well written or funny ads. (Sometimes they are all of the above.) So occasionally I'm going to share my favorites. Here's one that I read, and re-read, and re-read before running the marathon two weeks ago. Since the text is probably too small to read, this is what it says:

"If you ran without sacrifice, congratulations. You just jogged. Running hurts. It always has. Woolly mammoths didn't just roll over onto a plate and serve themselves up to prehistoric man with fries and a shake. They had to be caught - and running down woolly mammoths was a bitch. Guess what? Running is still a bitch. But one with a purpose. It teaches us that good things do not come easy. It teaches us that we are capable of more than we think. It teaches us that hard work will be rewarded and laziness will be punished. Don't expect to learn those life lessons from running's shiftless stepchild, jogging. Next time you suffer on the roads or trails, suffer proudly. It means you run like an animal."

I love stuff like this!