Cheever combines fascinating personal anecdotes from his own amateur running career with historical vignettes about running. A couple of my other favorites are Benjamin Cheever’s Strides: Running Through History with an Unlikely Athlete (2007) and Peter Segel’s The Incomplete Book of Running (2018). Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007) is the classic running memoir. One thing that contributed to the shift from experiencing running as drudgery to running as enjoyable – at times even joyful – was reading about the stories and experiences of other runners. It took about a year of forcing myself out the door and onto the pavement every few days before I actually started looking forward to each run. What changed in between? I’m not exactly sure how it happened, but running went from something I felt I should do to something I love to do. Fast forward to April of this year, and after months of training, I was crossing the finish line in my first marathon. So, I laced up an old pair of tennis shoes and ran a slow, painful 2 miles around my neighborhood. However, my 30th birthday was right around the corner, and I felt like I needed to do something to counteract my increasingly sedentary lifestyle. In the fall of 2015, I hadn’t run so much as a mile since college. Sure, I’d run in high school as part of conditioning for basketball and baseball, but I never enjoyed it. Just a few short years ago, I would have told you how much I hated running.
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