Running truisms

There are several things that I have discovered while running through life.  Science will not back me up on any of these things, but if you have run enough you just might find yourself nodding in agreement at some of them.  

The hills are always longer going up than they are coming down.  

You never gain with the wind at your back what you lose with the wind in your face.  

No matter which direction you are headed, the snow will blow into your face.  

Two minutes of running a hard mile is much longer than two minutes in a marathon. 

One minute of recovery time will always go by twice as fast as one minute of hard  interval time.

It doesn't matter how many toilets there are at the starting line, it will never be enough.

It doesn't matter how many times you have been to the bathroom before a race, you will always have to go when you are on the starting line. 

You will know you are training hard when you start having nightmares in which either you can't run very well or you never get to stop.  

You will know you are training hard when your workouts start resembling your nightmares. 

No matter how fast you are as an adult, you will never be as fast and it will never be as easy as you remember it being when you were younger. But you will keep running anyway.