Tag: running

On injury, compensation, and living with pain.

What happens if the stories we tell ourselves about our lives leave us lonely, wrestling with meaning?

When “Who gets to go jogging without getting shot?” is an actual question a society has to ask, that society is fundamentally flawed.

On masculinity, grief, and learning from suffering.

“As he would later tell me, running was the rare sport where you mostly competed against yourself. You could learn without having to lose.”

On competitive running, exactness, and finding permission to be myself.

Amber Leventry recalls how getting sober forced them to confront and reveal important truths about their identity.

“…no one sober knows if they’re going to be sober forever. It was a forgiving moment, and it humbled me.”

“You see that you can never go back. And with this knowledge a peculiar grief descends.”

For author Jaclyn Gilbert, revising her writing is much like doing the same running loops over and over, to the point where she doesn’t have to think about where she’s going anymore.

For her father, Jaclyn Gilbert is less a daughter than a debt.

Six stories about running and the human drive to push through pain.

A Teen Vogue series covers women getting involved in government at various levels.

Gabriele Grunewald’s rare cancer has returned, but the athlete keeps fighting.

The Barkley Marathon is five 20+ mile loops that runners must navigate in under 60 hours. Sarah Barker explores the event and the people who attempt this race-slash-ordeal.

In Down East magazine, Kathryn Miles profiles marathon runner Gary Allen, founder of the Millinocket Marathon — an engine of revitalization in a downtrodden town.

In 2006, Christopher McDougall set off on an adventure in search of the Tarahumara Indians, a reclusive running tribe in the Copper Canyons of Mexico. On that journey, later to be chronicled in McDougall’s book, Born to Run (and also later documented in a 2012 New York Times story by Barry Bearak), McDougall befriended the […]

Does our body tell us when we can’t go any farther, or does our brain? A look at marathon runners and the science behind human endurance. A classic situation in which athletes believe they have hit a true physical limit is ‘bonking’ during a marathon: you stagger to a halt, ostensibly because your body runs […]