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If all the people around you are crazy...
...then suddenly, crazy doesn't seem crazy anymore.
It has occurred to me several times, over the past four years of what should properly be dubbed RUNNING MANIA, that Frank's threshold for insanity has increased exponentially.
It was even more apparent last weekend, when Frank ran two marathons in two days, at altitude, followed by sitting in 40-degree water for 15 minutes until he became numb - in order to avoid next-day leg soreness - with socks on.
And it's spreading. BrotherUncle Scott has also completed ever more difficult running (and ice bath) feats in the last couple of years, and two of them, along with some of our other loony friends, will be running another "Double" in October.
They don't seem to recognize that naming the insanity normalizes it. Or maybe they do. Whatever. All I know is that when their fellow mental patients running buddies ask me how many marathons I've run, and I say "None," they look at me almost with pity. And I start to feel a little guilty, because hey, if they can run 20 marathons in a year, I should be able to do one, right?
Wrong!
Please send help.
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Just say no to peer pressure.