“Thank you, running, for letting me move through space, cover ground, get away from a screen, and tire me out enough to be okay staying in the house the rest of the day.” —MollyHuddle
I’m especially grateful to be healthy, and able to run. I often forget that being able to push my body beyond the functions of daily life is a privilege. We’re all maintaining this physical isolation to protect our basic health in the first place, so if you’re healthy enough to run, it’s a daily reminder that you’re wealthy with health. In that way, there are no “bad” workouts!, this is a good time to do that, despite how much running is a welcomed escape right now.
The current saving grace about distance running is that it has this solitary side to it. We can cling to that right now. We’re all a version of the lonely long-distance runner. I’m okay to be with myself for a long time, but this side of running eventually does feel out of balance without the community side. Too many runs alone make things feel grey. Too many runs with the same person who you also live with can become, to be polite, stale.
We can keep moving, and I’m grateful for that bit of daily accomplishment amid the squelching of opportunity during this time of pause. I do miss being buoyed by the performances and presence of the rest of us out on the road together. It’s like the running community is still running, but in parallel lines frustratingly out of reach, and just far enough away to stop that magically uplifting aligning of our energies that happens at road races.
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