Running

Dear runners,

What’s your runner story? Why are you running? What are you running towards? (Who/what are you running from?!)

genetically modified organism. synbio PhD. friend of bacteria. I make /synbio vids 🧬, co-host /science 👩🏽‍🔬, building /teaparty ☕️

started running when i was 14 because i was shit at soccer and baseball but still wanted to do a sport in high school, but was shit at running too so was made to run the longer events which was anything over 400m

for whatever reason though i didn't stop and got to be semi-competitive, particularly over longer distances, and continued to run at university and as a weekend warrior

started running much less after getting married and having kids, but still like to go out and jog (and dream about making comebacks) as i have no other athletic ability 😂