What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
problem at all. My feet hit the pavement hard, and my knees didn’t buckle. The danger is over. Probably. It’s become really cold ...
It’s autumn in New York It’s good to live it again. New York in November really does have a special charm to it. The air is clea ...
Eight AUGUST 26, 2006 • IN A SEASIDE TOWN IN KANAGAWA PREFECTURE 18 Til I Die Right now I’m training for a triathlon. Recently I ...
agility, so bicycling is definitely not my forte. That’s why, among the three parts of a triathlon— swimming, bicycling, and run ...
Once you have a scary incident like that, you really take it to heart. In most cases learning something essential in life requir ...
huge number. The turnover is so fast I can’t keep track of the total. They come, they go. But the total number of records is mos ...
At the start line I followed the pace leader with the 3 hours 45 minutes placard. I was sure I could definitely make that time. ...
point where you pass Heartbreak Hill, I felt fine. No problem at all. My friends who were waiting at Heartbreak Hill to cheer me ...
own individual, stubborn, uncooperative, often self-centered nature that still doubts itself—that, when troubles occur, tries to ...
Nine OCTOBER 1, 2006 • MURAKAMI CITY, NIIGATA PREFECTURE At Least He Never Walked Once when I was around sixteen and nobody else ...
Sea in the fall is apt to be, so we had to substitute a beach run for the swimming portion. Even when conditions weren’t so dras ...
the crawl very well. I got into the water, got ready to swim, and suddenly had trouble breathing. I’d lift my head to breathe, s ...
novels. Of course there are teachers who can teach a set subject, in a set order, using predetermined phrases, but there aren’t ...
This might be similar to practicing drumming. You’re made to practice bass drum patterns only, day after day. Then you spend day ...
nervous, but making sure not to hyperventilate. I go over my mental checklist one more time, just to be certain I haven’t forgot ...
see where I’m going as I swim. So what in the world is happening? Then it hits me. After I rubbed my skin with Vaseline I didn’t ...
cross my mind. I just let ’er rip, then plunged right into running. As you can imagine, my legs didn’t work right. My mind order ...
would ever go to the trouble of taking part in sports like the triathlon or the marathon, which demand such an investment of tim ...
Some day, if I have a gravestone and I’m able to pick out what’s carved on it, I’d like it to say this: Haruki Murakami 1949 – 2 ...
Afterword On Roads All Round the World As the headings of each chapter of this book indicate, the bulk of the writings collected ...
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