How to Enjoy Running for People Who Hate Doing It

Joey Held
a Few Words
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3 min readMay 19, 2020

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It’s hard to believe I ever completed a marathon. I don’t consider myself a runner. At all.

A marathon is 26.2 miles. 138,336 feet. 1,660,032 inches. I ran that distance!

Okay, I didn’t actually run the entire time. I hit a wall around mile 15 and shifted between slow jogs and walks, my legs the equivalent of melted marshmallows. There was a bathroom…

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Joey Held
a Few Words

Writer, voice actor, podcast host of Good People, Cool Things and Sports R Dumb | And I have a book—you should read it! https://joeyheld.com/books