Running for the Birds

Finding motivation when you don’t get a “runner’s high”

The author runs in a race in San Francisco, with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background, May 2016. Photo by Ziggy Tomcich.

Content note: Medical and weight issues.

This is not going to be one of those inspirational blog posts about how running cures depression or anxiety or any of the other litany of problems or illnesses that humans face. I am no role model when it comes to fitness or health issues, physical or mental. I am a…