even as we are reduced to bib numbers and the singlet of our running club and even as each race is an individual race with our own mind and body there is something very social that happens once we get spread out across the course why i love running you stand at the center of your own sacred circle your view to the horizon will change you may find yourself in another hemisphere with different elements in each direction but you will always be at the center of your own circle your own life finding wisdom in your place of power