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Running as a practice for personal growth and transformation. | Essays, insights, and practical advice to help you run with more ease and joy.
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The Running Flywheel (opens the original)
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They Can't Wreck Running (opens the original)
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Running is becoming too commercial.Brands are ruining trail and ultra.Those runfluencers didn’t pay their dues.The sport is losing its soul.*It’s a regular thing for The Internet to declare running is changing for the worse. Too performative. Too online. Too late-stage capitalism. A race sells out to a big-money sponsor. A brand hosts a weird activation. Someone puts tone-deaf copy on a window cling. Out come the pitchforks.Maybe we’re assigning too much significance to Run Culture. We weave the
Without a Parachute (opens the original)
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To some, it probably looked like a vacation. I assure you, it was not.The twelve days my wife and I just spent on the road camping through the Canadian Rockies was less escape, more intentional contact with the unknown. We do that sometimes: hurl ourselves into the world without a plan. Not to flee hard things, but to engage with them more fully.On these trips, discomfort is the point.“The danger is not uncertainty but the desire to escape it at any price. To seek guarantees is to fall into serv
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