Rationality and Running

If you expect a runner to be rational then you will be really disappointed.

How can you expect someone to be rational, if you find him sleeping with the race bib pinned onto his shirt before the night of the race? How can you expect rationality from someone who arrives at a random place when someone yelled out the word “race”? How can you expect rationality from someone who pays an entry fee to get butchered in the marathon? How can you expect rationality from a runner who does not move his ass to do simple tasks like washing dishes but runs a 20 miler on Sunday mornings? Rationality from someone whose highlight of the day is that he has shaved a 30 seconds from the last time he ran a similar distance? Rationality from a man who is constantly pre-occupied with the fact if he has applied Vaseline in his nipples before the race? Rationality from a runner who spends hours on the intricate art of drinking out of paper cups when he is on the run?