Running allowed Olly Woolrych to step off the treadmill of expectation about what it is to be a man. Today, his running event is Movember’s biggest fundraiser.
Olly Woolrych is dreading turning up today. Still, some 6000 people across Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the US are participating inThey will run 10 kilometres , 30 kilometres or 60 kilometres .The reason 36-year-old Woolrych is dreading it is the same reason he wanted to start it: he was suffering and struggling to reconcile his identity with the man he felt pressured to become.
So in February 2009, he laced up his running shoes, put his earphones in and started with one lap. The next day, he did another lap. And then he kept on running. “I was always a social person, I was just socialising in a way that wasn’t serving me,” says Woolrych, who no longer drinks alcohol. “I had this idea that if feels this good for me, it must feel good to other people.”In 2018, alongside running coach and friend Matty Abel, Woolrych started the Vipers Run Club in Manly. Five mates showed up.
He started to feel as though he could truly be himself. “You are valued as the person you want to be today, not the person you were in the past or the person you feel the pressure to be in the future. I think that’s really powerful.” “We thought there had to be an opportunity for them to come together in collaboration, not competition,” says Woolrych, who has recently moved to Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges and no longer runs Vipers.
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