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I still want to get back into running in some capacity soon, but I go to sleep today knowing that I gave myself love vs. doubt and thinking maybe tomorrow I might learn something about myself too.
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like I was doctor prescribing myself medicine. I've self diagnosed myself with a variety of maladies throughout the ups and downs of life but self-medicating in this way somehow felt new.
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I tabled running for another day: maybe for a day with friends or dad, or maybe to get in better shape to play basketball. I took the pressure off of myself to get back into solo running so quickly. This conscious decision made me feel realigned and connected to myself,
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Yujin pronounced in Japanese with a slightly different intonation than the name actually means “friend,” and after a morning of moderate anxiety, I jogged back to the house with a smile on my face.
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The person expected and introduced themselves as “Yujin.” We want on to play one game to 11, which I won (woohoo!) after which Yujin invited me to play again in the mornings when his other friends come to play.
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and no one was playing half or full court games. After 30 minutes or so of shooting, I did something that I’d never done in Japan in the 8 years I’ve lived here: I asked someone to play 1 on 1 that I didn’t know. Growing up in
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When I got to Yoyogi Park in Tokyo, where the local basketball court is near my house, one other person was shooting around so I went to shoot with them. It was still early in the morning, around 7:30AM,
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I don’t need a reason to play basketball. Growing up at The Cage in New York City, basketball runs in my blood and there’s a little tingle down my spine and slight anxiety that I get whenever I pass a basketball court but am too busy/not dressed to play.
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end of 2023 and despite waking up every morning and watching the Knicks game (sometimes on the monitor in front of me, while working, I got on the court less than 10 times in 2024.
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I instead I picked up my basketball. I was so focused on running, because I felt like that’s what I should do and had forgotten that basketball was something I’d also lost in 2024. My usual run dissipated towards the
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But happily married and though I might consider it some day, running a race is not on in my purview and I wasn’t going to be able to get a group of friends together on a moments notice to meet me for a run.
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each run getting progressively farther, going up to 22 miles. Most recently the running club I started for Senspace was not about me getting faster, but instead was about being excited about my friends and colleagues getting more active and into running.
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own sake—it was in service of some form of competition or at times, to get in shape to get girls (not proud, just true). During COVID, I used running as a way to meet up with friends, scheduling long runs to their houses and waving from a safe distance,
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Back in college and when I ran the New York Marathon, I ran to compete—not at a professional level, but with my own times and the clock. I didn’t run as a way to consciously make a lifestyle choice for my
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bit before walking down the hill, feeling defeated. Head down, I walked back into my house, took off my shoes, sat at my desk and asked myself, “why do I want to run?”
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