Falling in Love While Running (Read 370 times)

Collecting hundreds of pictures of myself running, inviting friends over, and showing them slideshows. I think they fell in love with the whole thing, too.  Especially the ones of me on the treadmill the past few years.

I put on a little race every Fall. I've had 3 couples meet around the race and eventually get married.

In 2013, we also gave away cats as door prizes

I didn't fall in love with my wife while running, but when a woman tolerates taking backseat to 100+ mpw and nonstop talking about running and Olympic trials and can eventually critique your friends on their training while not being a serious runner themselves, you gotta realize they have made a commitment to you and are probably better than you deserve.

Omg....I could not believe this topic......when you run with someone, I mean really run with them you get to know them, the inner them.

It started 12+ years ago, I had just started running and she had ran for almost 20 years - she suggested I join her for a run.

We were friends and we ran, for years we ran, we were friends.  We did races together, for years we raced together, we were friends. I would go out of my way to meet her for our weekend runs, I would follow her to out of town races, finish a long(i.e. ultra) race then backtrack to pace her in, we were good friends - this was our normal  - we were good friends.  I thought I loved her and she never knew, we were good friends.  Our friends thought our 'relationship' was odd but that's just the way we were.

At ~mile eighty of the Headlands Hundred she sat on a wooden fence, totally defeated, totally spent, her body failing.  My hands gently cupped her face and I looked deep into her eyes and knew at that moment this was the woman for me.

A year or two later driving back from another Miwok 100K we had 'the conversation' - it was uncomfortable, we learned many things about each other.  We were married this past June and have finally found our soul-mate.

WARNING - Both of our former spouses would strongly suggest if you are married to a runner that spends a lot of time running with someone else then, well, maybe there are other conversations that should occur.

As for our running, we run less and are far happier just being together.

Congrats, Scott!

I've found that it is great to have a significant other who loves to run. My running guy and I spend quite a bit of time talking during our runs together, and it's awesome.  It was a bit of a rough start initially since running can take too much priority when someone is used to being single, but we got it figured out. He and I will be getting married during a 50K. Since we both love to run and both love trails, it just makes sense. I was never one of those gals who dreamed of wearing uncomfortable shoes in an uncomfortable setting. I dream of trees and trails :-)

Trent, I am considering sacrificing my soon to be husband to the monkeys this year if they will have him. He's very excited about it. Little does he know...

I put on a little race every Fall. I've had 3 couples meet around the race and eventually get married.

Gee, maybe I really should make Monkey a priority over school!!

I hope when I do find "the one" he's a runner or at least crazy enough to support my addiction.