Possessed Magazine Running Blog

THE OUTLAW ISSUE

APRIL 2024

Welcome to the most badass installment of POSSESSED yet: Number 52, The Outlaw Issue.
You can expect to read the word ‘badass’ no less than eighty-seven times in this issue. I basically finished putting this together and then shook a saltshaker full of ‘badass’ all over it. You’ll probably find the overuse of ‘badass’ unbearable, and I’d like to apologize, but sadly, I’m a badass, so to heck with you (just kidding; please stay).
Now, I want to be very clear that by ‘Outlaw,’ we don’t mean criminal. Although there is a story in here about incarcerated men running a marathon... But when we say ‘Outlaw,’ we’re mostly talking about the rebels, rule breakers, and those folks who don’t run with the herd—people like Nils from The Speed Project, who we caught up with on the eve of TSP 2024. He’s doing his own thing in the world of running, and in many ways, so are the aforementioned guys running marathons at San Quintin. That’s a great story. You should cut out now and go read it.

While we’re on the subject of San Quintin, I believe that a life without at least a couple of hours in jail is a life half-lived. Not to brag, but I’ve been locked up twice. Once for purchasing marijuana from an undercover cop (kudos to him, by the way; he really looked the part: dreadlocks, ‘Makin’ Bacon’ t-shirt, missing teeth), and then a second time for urinating in an alleyway during a storm in the middle of the night. Lucky they busted me and put me in the local lock-up for nearly twenty-four hours, otherwise who knows what could have happened with me and my dick in the rain at 3 am when I was eighteen years old. Excellent work, officers. Anyway, speaking as an ex-outlaw, I reckon everyone should break the rules at least once in their life. I’m not saying you should key a police car or push a policeman’s motorcycle over or drop a flaming bag of dog shit on the front step of your local police station and then ring the bell and hide in the bushes, I’m just saying that if you want to walk to the beat of your own drum, you’re gonna have to go outside the law sometimes, and that’s what this 52nd issue POSSESSED is all about. That and some other silly running-related stuff. We hope you enjoy it.

x Jason.