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Runner Things #106

Runner Things #106: Runsational

Runner Things #105

Runner Things #105: The only real training for running is running.

Runner Things #104

Runner Things #104: I see myself as an artist. Running is the way I express my talent. I wish I could paint or write music, but running is what I do and I feel great joy from it.

Runner Things #103

Runner Things #103: A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that don't ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is trying to become. Because every woman knows, measurements are only statistics. And statistics LIE.

Runner Things #102

Runner Things #102: Runtastic

Runner Things #101

Runner Things #101: Hardcore it outdoors.

Runner Things #100

Runner Things #100: Running isn't a sport for pretty boys. It's about the sweat in your hair and the blisters on your feet. It's the frozen spit on your chin and the nausea in your gut. It's about throbbing calves and cramps at midnight that are strong enough to wake the dead. It's about getting out the door and running when the rest of the world is only dreaming about having the passion that you need to to live each and every day with. It's about being on a lonely road and running like a champion even when there's not a single soul in sight to cheer you on. Running is all about having the desire to train and persevere until every fiber in your legs, mind and heart is turned to steel. And when you've finally forged hard enough, you will have become the best runner you can be. And that's all you can ask for.

Runner Things #99

Runner Things #99: All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough, they'll say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. They will tell you NO, a thousand times NO until all the NO's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you NO, quite firmly and very quickly. They will tell you NO. And you will tell them YES.

Runner Things #98

Runner Things #98: Seize This

Runner Things #97

Runner Things #97: Training is doing your homework. It's not exciting. More often than not it's tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But you stick with it, over time, and incrementally through no specific session, your body changes. Your mind becomes calloused to effort. You stop thinking of running as difficult or interesting or magical. It just becomes what you do. It becomes a habit.

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