The Reality of Running With a Chronic Illness

The world of sports tends to hyper-focus on tangible achievements: winning an event, breaking a record, beating a personal best. While running is a highly personal sport and runners are often "competing" only against themselves, the community can still pay a lot of attention and lip service to personal records, or PRs. But runners with chronic illness have an especially unique perspective when it comes to setting goals and confronting discomfort, which often underlines our very existence. And although doctors are sometimes quick to prescribe exercise as a quick fix or cure-all for chronic illnesses (some of which can actually be worsened by exercise), in practice, people with chronic illness often learn that their running or movement journeys will have to look different than other people's. Read more about what it really means to run with a chronic illness here: https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/running-with-chronic-illness-49341364

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