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Lena Dunham has struck up a love affair with an age-old nemesis: running.
The Girls creator and star posted a photo to Instagram on Wednesday that was taken while she was running down the streets of New York City, revealing her new-found enjoyment for rapid bipedal ambulation.
"Basically my whole life I have hated running and [I] run like a wounded baby Pterodactyl," Dunham shared in the caption. "It was embarrassing and honestly I did not trust myself to escape a burning building or even move briskly towards a buffet."
So what inspired this change? Well, apparently it's all thanks to her character, Hannah Horvath, on Girls.
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"@jennikonner is directing the season finale of Girls and decided that as Hannah evolved so would her run, so she got me a training session with Matt Wilpers from Mile High Run Club," Dunham explained. "Within an hour I had a different relationship to this formerly torturous activity. I felt strong, swift and proud."
While she admits that she's "not about to embrace that triathlon life," the 29-year-old Golden Globe winner said she enjoys "getting more connected to my body and its powers."
Dunham has been spending more and more time getting healthy and exercising this year, and has even said that exercising has helped her manage her anxiety.
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"To those struggling with anxiety, OCD, depression: I know it's mad annoying when people tell you to exercise, and it took me about 16 medicated years to listen," Dunham Instagrammed earlier this year. "I'm glad I did. It ain't about the ass, it's about the brain."
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