running
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For Narnia and for Aslan: Reclaiming Running as Play
I run nearly every day, which leads many people to assume that I have always been into fitness. While I have always enjoyed a good walk or hike, it might surprise you to discover that I am not naturally athletic. My mom once jokingly described me as “an indoor cat,” and some of my earliest Continue reading
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Things Your Garmin Can’t Measure
I love my Garmin watch. Just today, it recorded my fastest 10k yet. The main reason that I ran well today, though, was that I was not thinking about running well. Instead, I was considering the many things that my watch can’t track. Often, these are the very things that make running worthwhile—far beyond any Continue reading
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Running without Weight
It’s finally warming up here in Iowa and, although I am glad to run outside once more, I am confronted by the fact that even outdoor running has its restrictions. I must hold my pepper spray if I am running alone. I must carry a water bottle if I plan to run any significant distance. Continue reading
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Run Like a Girl
Run as fast and far as the menBut be sure to stay out in the open. Carry pepper spray or an alarmTo keep your health and keep from harm. Turn down the music, keep wide, clear eyes, Suspect all footsteps and passerby’s. Go only in the broad light of day;Brave the heat; it’s the safest Continue reading
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When the Race is a Relay
I love to run, often using it as a time of prayer and contemplation. (Admittedly, such prayers are sometimes something along the lines of, “Please help me catch my breath…”) Running, often used as an analogy for the Christian life, has taught me many lessons. Aside from the physical and mental benefits, much of my Continue reading
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From a Moonlit Run
Along with you I now will wax poetic, As you cast your spell upon this bleak canalRevealing the beauty of the beaten trail,Rendering me, in the truest sense, lunatic. A reluctant runner, no—I am no more;I am again a huntress as of old. I dash about, bright, brazen, beaming, bold:Forgotten fancy, myth of maiden lore. Continue reading
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Running as Active and Imaginative Practice
I think the main reason that people hate running isn’t necessarily that it is strenuous but that it is dull. The reason that I am a decent runner, after all, is the same reason it is basically boring; all it entails is starting and not stopping. It’s as simple and mundane as that. When we Continue reading
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Cross Training: A Lenten Reflection
I am a runner and, although I’m not going to win for speed any time soon, I am satisfied in my steadily-increasing pace. As odd as it sounds, I credit much of this consistency to my shoes. A devout patron of Brooks, I am more than a little happy with my pairs of their “Ghost” Continue reading
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Running for Perspective
I love to run, but unless I have a really good soundtrack or running buddy, abhor running on treadmills or tracks because I do not run merely for exercise, I run for perspective. This is why I cannot run on a track only. After a while, I get bored watching the same people play the Continue reading
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The Eroica 10k
Calling all runners and musicians! Thanks to my music history class, I have of late become obsessed with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55, better known as the “Eroica Symphony.” “Eroica” means “Heroic” in case you did not figure that out for yourself and this musical adventure is just that: heroic. It Continue reading
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