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The Art of Running: Grace & a Beautiful Race


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The struggle is real, my friends, the struggle is real. While it's understood that we can't be on all the time, as creative folk, we feel the pressure to bring the heat every week. This week's episode is an attempt to salvage an entire day's recording where we'd flopped around like fish in the bottom of a leaky boat. Of course, the reason for the flopping was hubris...We'd gotten pretty confident that we could pull off any conversational trick with flying colors, so we decided we'd freestyle on this morning. Good luck with that. After an hour of attempting to weave discursive threads into some kind of tapestry, we'd simply run out of conversational road. Hooked, cooked, flopping around...heavy as lead.
Then Michael decided to dig in. What follows is a shorter episode where we try to pull a rabbit out of a hat by returning to one of my old saws: A Beautiful Race.
Here we discuss how running is a metaphor for existence & an art form to be practiced. Taking up the call to action Eliud Kipchoge issued about running a beautiful race. We improvise, we push & pull, we challenge each other, we circle up & get deadly serious about planning for the future while living in the present.
While I suspect we'll return to this concept for a deeper dive, this episode is really all about your hosts being very serious about honoring your time & attention & not putting out an hour of bullshit content. Let us know how we did.
I do reference another podcast that is not afraid to dig deeper & get beyond the physical hosted by Ryan WIllms' MEP Podcast. So there is a link here to that resource. Also, I wrote an essay on this topic last year for my short-lived RunGnosis project & there is a LINK HERE for that, as well. 
So with no further ado, I bring to you the episode we call The Art of Running: Grace & a Beautiful Race. 
Godspeed my friends, godspeed. 

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