It’s probably only when I’m running that I properly observe the world• How to get started – and how to be a faster runner• Why do you run? Tell us in the comments belowJ Alfred Prufrock measured out his life with coffee spoons. I measure mine with footsteps. There is no digital gizmo involved, just my head. Sixteen hundred steps from the office will take me along Regent’s Canal as far as the Constitution pub. Whatever happens, I know I can count there and back as a run of sorts. Why I run: ‘It’s painful and boring. Afterwards, you’re fully alive’
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