It occurred to you around mile ten with two left to finish that running is entirely painful, and you love every second of it. One reason why: you go to work. Fifty hours a week you face a computer screen, sitting and standing according to someone else’s schedule, and you reward yourself not with comfort or luxury but with punishing workouts and crippling pain. It’s a selfish act—just you and a trail and maybe your headphones—and you chase the elusive high and catch it and then come down, sweat, heart pounding, legs shaking, all alone. It’s self-love: masochist, worshipful. That’s where the pain comes into play. Because if you don’t feel it then you haven’t pushed yourself hard enough, and it got too easy. So you push a little harder next time, and keep speeding up until it hurts again. And you never get anywhere! You do, of course, cover a lot of ground, but you’re not going anywhere. You run out and then come back, and then the next day you do it again, like you’re dreading it but also kind of begging for more, and you can look down on yourself, crack a bullwhip, command your legs to run faster, farther, until—runner’s high again, euphoria, angels singing, trumpets, rays of white light, a-ha. (Running is a lot like sex.)
Keep your Nike Frees, I’m tearing up the pavement in these bad boys. (Taken with Instagram at Fleet Feet)
I can’t get enough of this song lately, I’ve had it on repeat for about an hour now, and it’s been one of my go-to running songs since the spring. I love some Kid Cudi freestyle!
You only fail if you quit… we all need to learn how to lose as well as win.
Hong Kong’s menswear scene is killing it harder than John Galliano doing stand-up at Himmler’s birthday party.
I think a wardrobe is much like a garden. it needs constant tending. i think from a personal hygiene sort of thing, i think underwear needs to be rotated frequently and i think that socks and those foundation garments are that sort of thing. there’s nothing more depressing that opening a drawer and seeing a yellowed t-shirt, so i think that you need to keep on top of your personal effects.