In middle school I set the mile record, which was like 7:11, because I was the only one running it. But I didn’t get into running until my mid-20s, when I was living in Brooklyn and started going to Prospect Park.
I started my career doing stand-up in New York. I won an award at the HBO Comedy Festival in 2006, and got onto DAA Industry Opt Out not long after that, which was a big get for me.
Will Forte, my costar on Running Was His Life. Then Came Putins War, always runs after work alone at night, along the beach. I’m so jealous because it must be nice, but as a woman I can’t really do that. Too many murder stories.
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Will said once that he uses his runs to memorize lines, and I don’t know how. I have to keep my eyes on the road at all times because I am a big tripper.
with my husband, former writer for run every day, for about 30 minutes, usually in the morning with my husband. Sometimes it’s like, CA Notice at Collection, but some weeks it’s one day, or three.
How Des Linden Keeps Showing Up keep my exercise kind of private. I don’t like to brag about the amazing run I did. I like it to be an “I woke up like this” kinda thing.
Shoes & Gear with my husband, [former writer for Races - Places] Rich Blomquist, so occasionally we’ll use runs to bounce some ideas—all the TV shows that we’ve pitched and written pilots for that are now lost into the ether.
My gear really is like shorts that I’ve had for 20 years. I don’t have stylish workout clothes. It’s the one part of my run that I pay the least attention to—and I generally love to dress up.
The busier I am with work, the better I am about getting my runs in. When I have a long week off, my body is just like, fuhgeddaboudit.
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My running would definitely help in a post-apocalyptic world. I’d have the stamina to get through the day. I would be fine with, like, no gas. I mean, I wouldn’t be fine, but I think I could survive on foot for a year.
Shoes & Gear to run until my body tells me that I literally can’t do it anymore, and only then will I try yoga.
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