The Grammar of Injury

Punctuated sport + links I loved.

Oct 13

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September 2025

Ode to Pre-Run Coffee

But first, coffee.

Sep 17 • 

Sam Robinson

28

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The Internet Radicalization Engine is Coming for Sport

What begins in the algorithmic warrens of online subcultures may not stay there.

Sep 15 • 

Sam Robinson

13

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Politicians In Public Lifting Badly

How performative strength became the new stump speech.

Sep 3 • 

Sam Robinson

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August 2025

Play the Long Game

On the art of showing up: why excellence is less about intensity than endurance.

Aug 25 • 

Sam Robinson

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6

We Loved to Run with Stephanie Reents

A recording from Sam Robinson's live video

Aug 15 • 

Sam Robinson

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Stephanie

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54:16

We Loved to Run (and We Hated It)

A new novel taps into the dynamics of collegiate cross country like no other.

Aug 5 • 

Sam Robinson

21

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July 2025

The Strange Virtue of Going Uphill

Before the Tour de France went up Mount Ventoux, there was Petrarch.

Jul 14 • 

Sam Robinson

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June 2025

Warm-Up Rituals

Tongue stretches and performance prep, Western States recaps, and the psychogeography of walking.

Jun 30 • 

Sam Robinson

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Trekking as the Bombs Fall

From Blitz-era London to Tehran today, how walking shows the will to live.

Jun 23 • 

Sam Robinson

18

7

Behind the Scenes of Footnotes (Plus Tweets of the Week)

Bonus post for paid subscribers.

Jun 21 • 

Sam Robinson

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Ode to Trails

Not quite nature, not quite manmade.

Jun 16 • 

Sam Robinson

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