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NHL star P.K. Subban wants to know why winter running is so great, the only way to fully understand winter running is by trying it

Recently, former Canadian NHL star P.K. Subban tweeted a classic running fail video in which a runner slips on an icy road, seconds after telling a reporter why winter running is so great. There’s no denying that this is a brutal yet hilarious video, but Subban posted it with two questions: “Why?” and “What’s the upside?”

Why?

To answer Subban’s question: runners run because we enjoy it. Yes, it’s hard and it can be painful at times, but if we didn’t like to run, we wouldn’t do it. Asking a runner why they run is like asking a chef why they cook or an artist why they paint. In each of those cases, you’ll get some variation of the same answer—“I like what I do.”

It’s addictive

When you first started running, you may have questioned why you decided to try it out. In fact, you may still ask yourself that from time to time. But soon enough, you likely found yourself craving a run. It’s a truly addictive sport, but if you tell non-runners that they’ll come to love it if they stick with it, most of them probably won’t believe you.

Post-race food and drinks

There’s nothing quite like food and drinks after a race. After running a long way, even something as simple as an apple can be the most delicious thing you’ve ever tasted. Until you’ve completed a race (or any other kind of endurance event) you can’t really know how amazing a post-race meal can be.

Self-competition

As a runner, you know how great it is to compete with yourself. When most runners enter a race, they aren’t aiming to cross the finish line in first place, and the only people they’re really trying to beat is past versions of themselves. If you tell a non-runner that you like racing yourself and trying to beat your past times and results, they’ll just give you a funny look and change the subject.

It’s fun

If you’ve ever told a non-runner that you run because it’s fun, they may have laughed in your face. Running used to be a punishment in gym class, and many people still think of it in that way. At the end of the day, all that matters is that you think the sport is fun. You’re not going to convince your non-runner friends that running is fun, just like they won’t convince you that it’s not, so we might as well just try to co-exist.