Running

Lindsey A. Freeman

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN:
  9781478024286
• Print ISBN:
  9781478019657
  9781478017011

In Running, former NCAA Division I track athlete Lindsey A. Freeman presents the feminist and queer handbook of running that she always wanted but could never find. For Freeman, running is full of joy, desire, and indulgence in the pleasure and weirdness of having a body. It allows for a space of freedom—to move and be moved. Through tender storytelling of a lifetime wearing running shoes, Freeman considers injury and recovery, what it means to run as a visibly queer person, and how the release found in running comes from a desire to touch something that cannot be accessed when still. Running invites us to run through life, legging it out the best we can with heart and style.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Stride—Form—Cadence—Pace
• On the Subversive Nature of This Handbook
• A Note on “Just Do It”
• Leaving It All on the Track
• Running Is a Contact Sport
• Running after Olympians
• Running Is Your Life
• Speed Play
• Personal Best
• In Training for the Boston Marathon
• Running the Risk Of
• Courage, or The Paris Marathon
• Runner’s High
• Let’s Let Our Running Be Real
• On Hitting the Wall and Writer’s Block
• Repetitive Stress
• A Note on Cross-Training
• A Note on Running to Music
• Big Gay 10K
• This One’s for the Rabbits, the Also-Rans, and the Dreamers
• Loops—Practice—Repetition—Ritual
• Cooldown and Stretching
• Notes
• Bibliography: Things I Thought With, Things I Ran With