"You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running."
-FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER and JON HANC, Running For Dummies
Long loop, and for the first time since the dog bite, took the corner at 58th, my heart pounding....
The body remembers trauma, just as it remembers skills, pleasure and accomplishment. I realized, as I rounded out to head north, that I needed to reclaim that corner, to teach my body to stop having fear around that event.
It was a long, hot run. A few precious stretches here and there gave me lift, but mostly it was just a whole lotta work....
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