A nicely written book about his relationship with his father, kids, and running, from the CEO of The Atlantic. Here’s an essay adapted from his book. I share many of his sentiments toward running, and I’m grateful that I can still run whenever I feel like it and see the world while running.
Excerpts:
Every action we take helps to build our habits. Quit once and it’ll be easier to quite the second time too.
When I arrive in a new city, I like to circle it with a run. I’ve seen more of the world while running than I have while walking.
I learned that pain has physical causes but that it’s mostly a mental process: we slow in races less because we reach our physical limits than because our minds get scared.
Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions. –Eliud Kipchoge, two-time Olympic marathon gold medalist for Kenya
The sensation of growing stronger is one of the most beautiful things about this sport. As my training intensified, everything about my body–and my awareness of it–sharpened.
She hadn’t touched money or bought anything for two months. Her life had been distilled to its essence: run, eat, sleep, repeat.
Running has become part of my day where I disconnect from screens and let my mind drift usefully and turn over problems. It encourages simple habits–heathly sleep, healthy eating, moderate drinking–that help as much at 8 a.m. meetings as they do 6 a.m. runs.
It taught me to have total trust in the compound interest gained by steady day-by-day work. I got fast by running hard, consistently, and wasting very little time worrying about how ambitious my goals were.
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