Endurance running is an abusive self-masturbatory act

Endurance running, if not for health (the health benefits do not scale linearly with the distance ran), is essentially an abusive self-masturbatory process which we prescribe self inflicted pain to ourself as a coping medicine to relieve existential pain that stems from boredom, plateau and loss. This voluntarily imposed pain distracts us from life’s inevitable and uncontrollable pain since it gives us the illusion of purposeful suffering, given that the mind dictates the body, forcing it to take on the cycle of muscle contraction and relaxation, despite the accumulation of exhaustion, this in turn, allows us to build the confidence to face unforeseeable pain in our life, as if the further we can run, the greater pain we can endure.

And yes I do run.