By Haruki Murakami
An intimate examine writing, operating, and the awesome method they intersect, from the incomparable, bestselling writer Haruki Murakami.While easily education for brand new York urban Marathon will be adequate for many humans, Haruki Murakami's made up our minds to put in writing approximately it besides. the result's a stunning memoir approximately his intertwined obsessions with operating and writing, choked with shiny stories and insights, together with the eureka second whilst he made up our minds to develop into a author. by way of turns humorous and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I discuss while I speak about Running is wealthy and revelatory, either for lovers of this masterful but guardedly deepest author and for the exploding inhabitants of athletes who locate related delight in athletic pursuit.
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The road within the Athens city limits is very hard to run on. It’s about three miles from the stadium to the highway entrance, and there are way too many stoplights along the way, which messes up my pace. There are also a lot of places where construction and double-parked cars block the road, and I have to step out into the middle of the street. What with the cars zooming around early in the morning, running here can be dangerous. The sun starts to come up just as I enter Marathon Avenue, and the streetlights all go out at once.
This kind of package tour didn’t interest me, but I did like the idea of being on my own afterward. Greece is the home of the original marathon course, and I was dying to see it with my own eyes. I figured I should be able to run at least part of it myself. For a beginning runner like me, this would definitely be an exciting experience. Wait a sec, I thought. Why just one part? Why not run the entire distance? When I suggested this to the editors of the magazine, they liked the idea. So I ended up running my first full marathon (or something close to it) quietly, all by myself.
I’ve tried my best never to say something like, Running is great. Everybody should try it. If some people have an interest in long-distance running, just leave them be, and they’ll start running on their own. If they’re not interested in it, no amount of persuasion will make any difference. Marathon running is not a sport for everyone, just as being a novelist isn’t a job for everyone. Nobody ever recommended or even desired that I be a novelist—in fact, some tried to stop me. I had the idea to be one, and that’s what I did.
