Running: you either love it or you hate it. But hating it doesn’t necessarily mean not doing it. There are plenty of runners who can’t stand the way chewing up miles makes them feel sweaty, breathless and exposed – but they still lace up every week.
Writer Josie England is one such person, who has been exploring her own complicated and entirely relatable relationship with running. “At best I tolerate it; at worst, I hate it,” she says. And yet, despite never having experienced a runner’s high, she keeps going. Here’s why you should too…