running
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Running And Thinking
“The deeper you look, the less likely you are to find a moment of sudden breakthrough, rather than a series of small incremental steps.” Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works No matter how a run is going, it always does something good for your mind. You might be struggling in the swelter of a summer’s morning Continue reading
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Running As Psychogeography
Passing through a residential neighborhood in Queens about a mile and a half from where I live there’s a long road, 21st Avenue, with a series of hills that I look forward to running on most days. The road’s total length is maybe a mile and a half, but feels like an adventure to train Continue reading
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Running, Tempo, and Time
As a runner, I often think about running’s relationship to time and how we inhabit time differently while in motion. Time seems to pass more slowly—or not pass at all—when you’re running. Your mind floats: past becomes present, and future scenarios play themselves out—perhaps because you’re grounded in the tactile stepping of your stride. When Continue reading
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Lessons From Running
I spend as much time running as I do making music, which is to say that most days I’m outside training. Last October I ran the Boston marathon—which was delayed in 2021 after having been cancelled twice in 2020—and over the past four months I’ve been training for the April 2022 edition. My first Boston Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Jason Karp On Rhythm
“It’s a lot about rhythm and trying to find that rhythm and let the rhythm carry you so you don’t feel like you’re having to push the whole time. Let the rhythm carry you through the whole way. It makes the rhythm bigger: when you have more than one person there it’s the collective rhythm Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Michael Crawley’s “Out Of Thin Air” (2021)
“To ‘follow someone’s feet’ is to share their rhythm and to feed off their energy, and leading or pacemaking is therefore often described by the runners in Addis as ‘bearing someone else’s burden.’ The runners are expected to learn to share their energy and to improve together.” “When runners ask, ‘Condition yet alle?‘ (‘Where is Continue reading
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Notes On Vybarr Cregan-Reid’s “Footsteps: How Running Makes Us Human”
“When running, thinking plays sixth fiddle to sensing–for hearing, seeing and feeling how places present themselves to our consciousness takes precedence over careful consideration.” – Vybarr Cregan-Reid, Footsteps, p. 56 Vybarr Cregan-Reid’s Footsteps: How Running Makes Us Human is a lucid and literary exploration of running. Cregan-Reid is an academic (professor of English) who has turned Continue reading
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Running Music
(Listening on headphones recommended.) Continue reading
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On New Features: Brettworks Gallery
The brettworks blog has a new page called Gallery that features photos I’ve taken while running. You can access the Gallery here. Continue reading
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