run

or

The Time a

Fat Girl Tried

to Run

a 5K


A documented experimentation in movement, willpower, and stupidity

by Ally Bonino

  • Country Roads, Take Me Home

    Week Seven, Day 3 Saturday, August 26th, 2023 Greetings from Connecticut. Colby, Pete, and I have escaped the city to spend the week with my family in the Nutmeg State, where a week of paddleboarding, tubing, beach, lake, and firepits with the people we love most awaits.  Oh yeah, and running, of course, because this…

  • Table Talk

    Week Seven, Day 2 Thursday, August 24th, 2023 It really is a wild thing, witing these two weeks ahead of when they publish. Today, I posted the one from when I hit 2.6 miles. When I was feeling dropped into myself. I remember how I felt that day, riding that high, feeling good about myself…

  • Bad Medicine

    Week Seven, Day 1 Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023 Content Warning: discussion of eating disorders, weight loss medication, self harm, and mental health. Ok. Ok, ok, ok. Ok, so this was originally a much longer, if you can believe it, much angrier post, but the first drafts of it were written in a state of doom-spiraling and abject…

  • I’m A Grown Ass Woman, And I’m Doing Fine*

    Week Six, Day 3 Friday, August 18th, 2023 POST-RUN MORTUM Time Running: 32minutes  Distance Achieved: 2.19miles  Tunage: Hamilton  *You simply must listen to the song “Grown Ass Woman” by my extraordinary friend, Shaina Taub. It, as pretty much everything Shaina writes, encapsulates basically everything I’ve ever felt because Shaina has the singular ability to write…

  • Heel Toe, BB. Heel Toe.

    Week Six, Day 2 Thursday, August 17th, 2023 All dressed up and nowhere to go. I have my sneaks and new compression sockies on, but just as I was about to head out, it started to downpour.  So now we wait.  I could write more here at the top.  But I’m going to watch Shameless…