Born to Run

“As I floated in my little pool of obstinance, I decided to go straight to the thing I feared most: running. I’d flirted with it in college and spent a few months on my feet in grad school, but in those situations it always boiled down to weight loss. Now I wanted the real deal. The electrolyte tablets, the weird chafing, the obsessive community in moisture-wicking fabric. On the day I quit my job at the Tribune—reclaiming my time from a bunch of old, white men—I joined the AIDS Foundation of Chicago‘s marathon team, T2.” Read more here!