The Shape of Running

When I run, I often cover the same ground. This was especially true years ago, when I was in school—it made tracking the distance easier. If I ran a new route, I had to drive it in a car to measure the mileage, so for the most part, I stuck to familiar routes. It was important to keep track, though. I recorded each run in a notebook. Each page had a grid for that day’s mileage, workouts, heart rate, and more. Each night, I’d go to my room and tally the mileage for the day and week. It was completely analog, but it was the only way to learn about my fitness, understand when I needed to rest, and decide what to do next.Around this time, I experimented with other ways to track my runs. I wondered what visual designs or patterns I might find by plotting their paths. I found aerial photos of campus and maps of town, then traced my runs on vellum and bound the pages into a book for a student project.Week In The Life Book. 2004.So much has changed. The logging I once did manually is now…

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