Jason Rashaad
This one’s personal.
I build the thing I needed. Dialysis to a half-marathon in eighteen months taught me that the hard part was never the training. It was everything around it.
“I look better than your dad” is a joke I kept making until it stopped being one. It is the short version of a longer claim: that the change is available, that it is not reserved for people who started earlier or got luckier, and that the framework around the work matters more than the work itself.
The framework is a journal at my desk, and a Look Back every Saturday: what I said I’d do, and what I did. November 1 is five years sober. This October I’m doing it in public.
- Twenty-six races since 2013. The next one is the Rocky Run, November 14.
- Ardmore, PA, a long walk from a Wawa. Da Nang, Vietnam, this winter.