How to Run Like a Stoic
The following piece is a guest post by "Scout7," a sporadic but long time poster on the Running Ahead message boards . I asked Scout to do this piece for two reasons. First, he is not a philosopher by training, but I have always found his insights on running to be philosophical--mindful of the place of running within the larger ethical task of living life well. Second, his posts on training and running on Running Ahead have helped me think more intelligently about how to train and have influenced my own running philosophy. I believe both of these reasons will be evident in what he has written below. Enjoy! " First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. " -- Epictetus Epictetus was a slave. His philosophy, not ironically, was a practice of freedom. Jeff asked me if I would mind writing a guest post for his blog, and of course I agreed. I mean, why not? How h...