On the road

I started running again! Logging my runs publicly, partially for fun and partially for some accountability.

April 2024

• Apr 14, 2024 23 minutes.

October 2023

• Oct 15, 2023 20 minutes. Listened to Roosevelt. Running is hard when you havent done it for a year — but I stopped running last year because of the snow. Happy at least to see I started running again earlier in the year, so hopefully I can get more time in before the snow comes down this time. It's already chilly. My hands got super cold because i didn't bring my gloves. I'll need to remember next time.

December 2022

• Dec 3, 2022 40 minutes. Listened to my techno playlist. Gotta say...not nearly as pump-up as Younes or Saint Asonia.

November 2022

Since I only started running near the end of the month, it seems a bit silly to write a "post-mortem" for November. Could I really have anything of depth to say with only three runs?

I haven't run consistently (or really at all) in many years. The last time was probably in 2013, when I would do around 20-30 minutes in the mornings around four times a week. Running was always torturous to me, though throughout my life I saw the practice as intensely aspirational. My mom persistently told me that I was genetically destined to be a failure at running, since she was. Though she was trying to help me move on from it without feeling bad, it did the opposite. I doggedly tried many times to make running stick, chasing the fabled runners high and wondering if I was feeling it — like a nervous teenager trying weed for the first time. I think it's safe to say that I never felt it.

Recently, I was overcome with a renewed desire to try running again. To my total surprise, it hasn't been an experience of nearly unbearable pain (like it has been previously). Who's to say why? Maybe it's because, this time, I've been obsessed with form. After having looked up some videos on the topic, I'm convinced that I was running totally wrong. Maybe it's because I've built some core muscles from constant yoga practice in the intervening years. Maybe it's because my cardiovascular endurance has improved, also from yoga. Whatever the reason, I have more hope than any point in the past that running might stick this time. At least, making these big public declarations certainly helps with the commitment.

• Nov 26, 2022 30 minutes.
• Nov 24, 2022 25 minutes. Listened to Younes: Meme les feuilles.
• Nov 22, 2022 15 minutes. Listened to Saint Asonia: Extrovert.