Running

Lindsey A. Freeman

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Duke University Press
29 June 2023

Active outdoor pursuits

Series: Practices

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.

By: Lindsey A. Freeman
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 127mm,
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9781478017011
ISBN 10: 1478017015
Series: Practices
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 29 June 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Stride—Form—Cadence—Pace 14 On the Subversive Nature of This Handbook 17 A Note on “Just Do It” 30 Leaving It All on the Track 33 Running Is a Contact Sport 37 Running after Olympians 42 Running Is Your Life 56 Speed Play 58 Personal Best 61 In Training for the Boston Marathon 70 Running the Risk Of 84 Courage, or The Paris Marathon 87 Runner’s High 91 Let’s Let Our Running Be Real 97 On Hitting the Wall and Writer’s Block 101 Repetitive Stress 105 A Note on Cross-Training 112 A Note on Running to Music 114 Big Gay 10K 117 This One’s for the Rabbits, the Also-Rans, and the Dreamers 120 Loops—Practice—Repetition—Ritual 126 Cooldown and Stretching 131 Notes 135 Bibliography: Things I Thought With, Things I Ran With 145

Lindsey A. Freeman is Associate Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University.

Reviews for Running

You can fill a small library with books on running, but you won't find many that touch on queerness and feminism in the sport. . . . [Freeman's] storytelling, along with her friend Hazel Meyer's illustrations, chronicles Freeman's lifelong relationship with running and illuminates the 'unexpected moments of connection and joy that we runners feel when we cover some distance together.' -- Becky Wade * Runners World * I found Lindsay A. Freedman's little queer book Running absolutely delightful and surprisingly validating, as I think many queer sportspersons will. In particular, Freedman talks about how running as a sport of individualism and triumph over one's own fears or limitations has both mirrored and supported her journey in coming out as queer in ways that made me go 'Oh yes, that.' -- S. Bear Bergman * Xtra *