I’m not really into Harry Styles’ music but I appreciate his running habit and this interview with Murakami from Runner’s World is gold. I could listen to him talk about running all day.
I have a marathon coming up this weekend and I’ve only recently been listening to music from time to time on my runs. However, I still prefer to not have anything on my ears. The less stuff the better. The bit about “having a conversation with myself” rather than any other people made me think of this notion of being alone in my thoughts. Harukami talks about the way running empties his mind and I think to me that means I’m thinking all the things on my runs until there is nothing left except that happy tired feeling of accomplishment which makes anything else that happens in the day better.
“The thing that I’ve found, in the rest of my life but particularly in running, is the idea of trusting myself to do exactly what I say I’m going to do,” Styles says. “To say to myself, I know that you can do something difficult, and that you can get up and train when you don’t want to train, and that you’re able to push through hard things.
Having that kind of self-integrity—no one can run a marathon for you. Whereas there are a lot of people who help me make music, put the music out, put on a show and make me look good at it!
But running is a conversation with myself.
I like that. 🏃🏼♂️➡️
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