“pace Or Perish” Ass

This ass believes, with the full weight of their soul, that any run not performed at maximal effort is a moral failing and a waste of a perfectly good day. There is no such thing as easy. There is only fast, and shame. Every outing must be a personal record or it may as well not have happened, and possibly counts against them. They have forgotten how to jog. The very concept offends them. Joy, for this ass, is not the point of running; suffering with purpose is, publicly, at threshold, forever. A zealot of the stopwatch, for whom slowing down is not rest but surrender, and surrender was never once part of the plan.