what *else* can running do? With this question in mind host and athlete, Sydney Allen-Ash explores a wide array of alternatives to thinking about and participating in running that challenge our expectations, embrace contradiction and immerse our normally sanitized sport into the real world.
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Quantitative Creep
as athletes, tracking data is meant to convey not only our skill level but our commitment to the sport itself. host Sydney Allen-Ash has a *big* problem with this. Wwat does all this data do, what are we working to optimize, why are we all trying so hard?! |
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Mutual Aid
to understand patterns of exclusion in outdoor sports, like trail running (which would be a normal topic for a normal running podcast) we have to first start with our relationship to the land.
What is “the outdoors” and where did this separation between humans and nature even come from? Join Sydney Allen-Ash for Episode 2 of Toenails to find out.
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Muscular christianity
the deification of victory—turning those who win into gods—is as old as human history, but what does winning really mean, and why do we care so much?
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Introducing : Toe Nai
what else can running do? With this question in mind host and athlete, Sydney Allen-Ash explores a wide array of alternatives to thinking about and participating in running that challenge our expectations, embrace contradiction and immerse our normally sanitized sport into the real world.
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