Because you’re new to the sport, the time melts away in the first few races. But as you progress and become better, it can take months and even years to run a personal best. And for the competitive runner, staying patient is the hardest part. But what if someone told that runner ...
Fatigue is a stranger, thoughts of labour washed away. At this stage I discover I’ve reached the 25-kilometre mark, ordinarily the locus of a great groan of self-pity. The discovery, after three hours of running that I still have seventeen kilometres to run has always fallen heavily upon...
"Away Runningis a book about football, best suited for teenaged boys who will engage with the mentality and language of these fictional teenaged boys from the disadvantaged spaces of their cities. But it is far more than that:at its heart, it is a book about what it means to be human,...
Here’s the deal: as of this moment, everything on my Substack is free to read. But on January 1, a paywall will go up around a portion of it: future installments of a novel-in-progress called23kpc. All the stuff regarding that novel through Chapter 7 — background and actual conten...
The first kind of hurt goes away in hours or a day. The second kind of hurt can last a lifetime." —Larry Shapiro, author of Zen and the Art of Running "Different people have different reasons for racing, but "Running is in my blood—the adrenaline flows before the races, the love...
How is it possible that someone who used to love and crave being around thousands of runners, dozens of kids, friends, family, and even ministry events could find herself shying away from it all and even looking for reasons to cancel? I’d find myself rationalizing why I shouldn’t go....
(PS. if you hit Old Navy’s clearance rack in the summer you will have lots of $5 throw away fleece that comes in handy when the temperature at the start line is 29F) With the 2 year anniversary of this blog, I want to say a continued suck it to self-neglect and thank you for...
So I give you my chapter on the McCarey films, keeping the bracketed source citations that would have gone in the back of the actual book intact just so you can see how scrupulous I am. One of the most affectionately cited scenes in Sleepless in Seattle is the one on which it’s ...
Rough As Guts: Running Away in New Zealand [FIRST CHAPTER ONLY]
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