You are a runner.

"We obsess over the dramatic consequences of the low risk."

"Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations. It takes effort to rise above this tendency, to step back from our beliefs and our emotional connection to conclusions and focus on the process. The process (i.e science, logic, and intellectual rigor) has to be more important than the belief."

— Dr. Steven Novella

"You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can’t know what’s coming."

— Frank Shorter

It’s a skeptical running world and I’m just living in it.