For Miles and Miles
The Runner's Body and Mind
How can you tell a story that is thousands of miles long? What does running do to the body and the mind? How does time affect the sport?
As a competitive runner, I often contemplate how I can describe our sport. These photos are meant to show the story of these miles. I seek to answer how the body reacts and adapts to running, how movement affects us all, how we view motion, and how to condense the time we spend running. I hope to tell a story that is filled with pain, injury, victory, and hope.
My subjects are my male teammates on the Varsity Cross Country and Track and Field teams. We all understand our own interpretations of running. I asked each of my subjects before each picture about their relationship with running. The answers were different every time. Some run to meditate and think, some run to find their physical and mental limits, and some run to feel that pain, to feel truly alive. Between those pictured, there are 12 broken bones from training, lungs filled with fluid from pneumonia, IT Band injuries that kept them away from running for 6 months, hundreds of races run, an All-American, and over 40,000 miles run. Their bodies are their stories. Each runner has their own.
