Favorite Sport vs. Most Entertaining Sport

One question that I find quite challenging to answer is "what is your favorite sport?" Some people can say that their favorite sport is the one they enjoy watching the most, while others may say the one they enjoy playing the most and still others may say the one that they enjoy the most overall. For instance, I have the most fun playing soccer. However, I do not consider soccer my favorite sport. My favorite sport is running. Now I'm not saying that whenever my friends and I are bored I suggest we go running. In fact, most of the time we would play frisbee or soccer or football. For me, soccer is extremely fun to play with friends and on a team. You get to run around and chase and kick a ball. In this way, the actions associated with soccer make it the most enjoyable sport to play. Yet the whole entity of running is what makes it my favorite sport. Out of the 150+ people on my cross country team, both boys and girls, only a select few actually enjoy the act of running, and I am not one of them. Very few people like to go outside and just run. But there is more to running then the physical activity itself. What makes running my favorite sport is that it is individualistic at the same time as being a team sport. When I run, I try to get a personal best as well as trying to help the team. Yet, in the end, a personal best is often valued more above a team's failure. For instance, if someone runs the best race of their lives and the team still loses that person will of course be sad for their loss, but will also have the knowledge that they did their best. Also, what makes running very interesting is that there is only one winner. In other team sports, the whole team can win or lose. In running, there is only one 1st place. Sure there are team champions, but there is only one single runner who can say he or she was better than everyone else. It is interesting to see everyone in a race, most of whom know that they have no chance of winning a race, but run their best to achieve a personal record. In these ways, running is much more than a sport, it is a personal challenge through which the common suffering of everyone brings the whole team together.