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Why Running is the Ultimate Addiction Recovery Tool

Turns out, doing things you’re not always good at is a good thing

Lonna Whiting
7 min readOct 6, 2021

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Nine a.m. and it’s 80 degrees with an unseasonably warm and aggressive 15 mile-per-hour southerly wind.

I’m lacing up my Brooks Levitate 5s and yanking up my high-waisted Lulu pants, setting my Garmin watch to “Run.”

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Lonna Whiting

Writer, Alzheimer’s Slayer and promoter of alcohol-free living