Billy Mills, Christina Torres, Ashley Hicks, et al — Running as Spiritual Practice

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On Being : Billy Mills, Christina Torres, Ashley Hicks, et al — Running as Spiritual Practice Image

Billy Mills, Christina Torres, Ashley Hicks, et al — Running as Spiritual Practice

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For the Summer Olympics, we explore a topic our listeners have called out as a passionate force and a connector across all kinds of boundaries in American culture: running. Not just as exercise, or as a merely physical pursuit, but running as a source of bonding between parents and children and friends; running as an interplay between competition and contemplation; running and body image and survival and healing.