Running
1st Edition
Published on 10. February 2023
160 pages
978-1-4780-2428-6 (ISBN)
Description
Former college track athlete Lindsey A. Freeman presents a feminist and queer handbook of running in which she considers what it means to run as a visibly queer person while exploring how running puts us in contact with ourselves and others.
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Lindsey A. Freeman is Associate Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Stride-Form-Cadence-Pace 14
On the Subversive Nature of This Handbook 17
A Note on "Just Do It" 30
Leaving It All on the Track 33
Running Is a Contact Sport 37
Running after Olympians 42
Running Is Your Life 56
Speed Play 58
Personal Best 61
In Training for the Boston Marathon 70
Running the Risk Of 84
Courage, or The Paris Marathon 87
Runner's High 91
Let's Let Our Running Be Real 97
On Hitting the Wall and Writer's Block 101
Repetitive Stress 105
A Note on Cross-Training 112
A Note on Running to Music 114
Big Gay 10K 117
This One's for the Rabbits, the Also-Rans, and the Dreamers 120
Loops-Practice-Repetition-Ritual 126
Cooldown and Stretching 131
Notes 135
Bibliography: Things I Thought With, Things I Ran With 145
Introduction 1
Stride-Form-Cadence-Pace 14
On the Subversive Nature of This Handbook 17
A Note on "Just Do It" 30
Leaving It All on the Track 33
Running Is a Contact Sport 37
Running after Olympians 42
Running Is Your Life 56
Speed Play 58
Personal Best 61
In Training for the Boston Marathon 70
Running the Risk Of 84
Courage, or The Paris Marathon 87
Runner's High 91
Let's Let Our Running Be Real 97
On Hitting the Wall and Writer's Block 101
Repetitive Stress 105
A Note on Cross-Training 112
A Note on Running to Music 114
Big Gay 10K 117
This One's for the Rabbits, the Also-Rans, and the Dreamers 120
Loops-Practice-Repetition-Ritual 126
Cooldown and Stretching 131
Notes 135
Bibliography: Things I Thought With, Things I Ran With 145
