Running circles in my mind

This newsletter was first published on Patreon on 1 November 2021

I’ve been focusing my mind this past week on that very long running race in New York. I re-watched the film 3100: Run and Become [footnote 1], in which Ashprihanal Aalto and co burst any delusions of glamour and grandeur I may have still harboured about the race. Aalto spends most of his year living a spartan existence in Helsinki, mediating, delivering…