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No Strava, No Problem
Two years ago, after encouragement from my partner, I joined a running club. As a freelancer, and someone who spends most of my time alone, getting to run with a few others and make friends was a lot of fun. But sometime in the early summer last year, I stopped going because I wasn’t enjoying it any longer. I was finding it harder and harder to identify with the other runners, which made it difficult to make friends. I realised I had also started to spend every club meet masking, which exhausted me before I’d even ran five yards. Things came to a head when, when socialising with a few members, conversation turned to what races we were all entering. When I said I wasn’t planning on entering any, and might never do so again, instead of accepting my decision, I found myself suddenly placed under peer pressure, constantly being egged on to sign up for a race. This didn’t go on for five or ten minutes, it happened repeatedly, until closing time, and I found the very nature of the incident l
by Matthew Curtis4 viewsrunning - news
The Golden Path
I had intended this piece to be a nostalgic, romantic look back at how running has changed and shaped my life since I took up the hobby 10 years ago. Life, however, always seems to have different intentions. Yesterday, about a kilometre into a planned 10km route around a gloriously sunny Stockport, I stacked it. It’s not the first time I’ve fallen over while running, and it won’t be the last, but this was perhaps my bloodiest to date. Maybe I shouldn’t have been out running at all; a couple of hours earlier I was locked in a ferocious internal debate about whether or not I was too tired or not to complete the distance. This is pretty standard procedure for me before every run. I can’t be arsed to pull all the gear on, fill my water bottle, and select some sweets and snacks for when I inevitably stop to stare at a river, or some nice trees for a few minutes. Like with pretty much everything in my life it takes me a while to find the motivation, but once I’ve finally managed to convince
by Matthew Curtis3 viewsrunning