Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Nature...and Ultrarunning

From the site Quote of the Day (13 Jan 2015), which I access from my homepage, Refdesk:

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences." - Robert Ingersoll


The parallel to Ultrarunning is pretty obvious.  If you are undertrained for the distance, don't carry enough water, fail to have the right gear with you...BOOM.  You blow up, figuratively.  How badly you blow up depends upon how poorly you planned.

Not in a judgmental way, but just as simple a cause-and-effect result.

Or as I recall from my early Sunday School Bible training as a kid, a phrase that I use daily:

You reap what you sow.


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