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Stoic principle
Every run you ever ran brought you here
There is a word the Stoics used that has no clean translation into modern language. Sympatheia. Sometimes rendered as sympathy, but that misses it. Sometimes as interconnectedness, but…
Stoic principleBefore the run goes wrong
There is a practice so counterintuitive that most people, when they first hear it, assume it must be…
Stoic principleYou are going to die. Now run.
There is a practice the Stoics recommended that would, by modern standards, be considered deeply morbid. Before sleeping,…
Stoic principleLearn to love the bad run
There is a Latin phrase that has followed me for years, through good training blocks and bad ones,…
Stoic principleThe only thing you control at mile 20
There is a moment in every long race — and if you've run enough of them, you know…