In The Long Run: Running

Photo by Katie Dadarria

Welcome to the first proper episode of In The Long Run with Katie Dadarria. If you missed the announcement episode, don’t worry, this first episode has been (partially) designed to catch you up to speed. Throughout these episodes, I’m going to be chatting with my dear friend, Katie Dadarria, about a developing personal project she’s working on, which features her interviewing older women about their experiences running. One of the lenses we’re utilizing is the exploration of how run clubs have blown up in popularity, the good and the bad of that, along with the conflicting feelings of community and isolation that we can feel in groups.

As the series progresses, we’ll be investigating the ways in which these talks have affected Katie, and with each episode, we talk explicitly about her thoughts and feelings towards the evolution of these people’s lives (including her own). For this first chat, it only made sense to have a direct talk about running, an activity that many of us can’t imagine partaking in (even with the mounting peer pressure to do so). This is episode 1 of 5.