‘I ran a mile for 31 days straight—here’s how it affected me’
eanut butter whiskey stung the back of my throat as it had on the way down, this time on the way up. I scanned the suburban sidewalk: Whose lawn would be better to puke in? It was a Sunday morning, August 1, and I was running.
Every one of my runs was painful. My shins, my calves, my ankles. I sought downhill routes only to discover new places for the pain to hide, behind my kneecaps and along my hamstrings. There is no cheating the act of running. It's your feet against concrete. That's it. Modern exercise culture, awash in Peloton ads, Alo Yoga tank tops, and Outdoor Voices spunk,"[demands] women control their bodies and treat them as our primary projects—to be tweaked, molded, and perfected forever,"The trouble is, without an end goal—a distinct result to achieve—there is only more, more, more, which paradoxically results in so much less devotion of ourselves.
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