I signed up for my first 10K run. This is kind of a big deal for me. I’ve had a tortured history with running. In this essay I run through my troubled past with this kind of exercise, how I’ve been working through it, and how motivational language often gets the process of overcoming these kinds of barriers wrong.

Related D&N articles:

• Physical Theology: Land, Exercise, and Community
• Fear-Based Learning
• Buildings and Bodies

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Music references:

All music is by Nori. Most is from their World Anew album.
In this episode:
Intro music: “Footprints”
Interludes: “Lullaby”
Used with permission.
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