People are motivated by many different things an interview with Justin Gillette taught me one. On Feb 14 1996 Gillette began running half a mile to a doughnut shop. Gillette now calls Valentine’s Day his “runiversary”. Gillette would eat the doughnut on his walk back to his house.
When he was 16 everyone then thought the world was going to end and Gillette wanted to run a marathon before he died. The world didn’t end so Gillette kept running. Soon he ran marathons for the money. Eventually he got married and had kids.
Now Gillette stills runs for the money but he also likes runs for the prizes. Gillette ran for a hat in Hawaii twice. He liked the hat so much he wore it for the hole interview. He ran for other things to like plates, plaques and other things that are really strange.