Getting started
If your idea of running is sprinting to the fridge during commercial breaks, you could probably use a motivating and instructional article about how to start and keep running. Advice is included on shoes, wearing polyester instead of cotton, and on how you’ll walk more than you’ll run in the beginning. Advice on how to escape the wildlife just ACHING to eat a runner is not included and a major oversight.
Having said that, if your motivation is to be able to run fast enough to escape a predator, you’re in for a rude awakening. Peter Allison entertainingly explains why exactly in Whatever You Do, Don’t Run.
Have you been reluctant to start running because it will take time away from your art? With GPS enabled on smart devices, you can do a ‘draw run’. Perhaps you will make drawings expressing the joy of the body in motion, a complex geometric pattern, or perhaps, like Claire, you will draw mostly genitals.
Some people like to run without gadgets, preferring to take a moment to disconnect in an all too-connected World. Those weirdos clearly don’t have the right running app. Read this roundup of apps to find which is right for you.
Speaking of apps, one’s been created to help choose exactly the right music for your run, even matching the tempo of your stride. They guarantee that no Carpenters songs will show up.
Running will keep you healthy and its popularity allows the opportunity to socialize. But most important, in a post apocalyptic world where running is the only way to escape roving hordes of zombies, wouldn’t you like to be the most fleet of foot? Of course you would. So start practicing immediately for this inevitability.
