The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports by Nicholas Thom

by Nicholas Thom

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The Nile on eBay The Running Ground by Nicholas Thompson NATIONAL BESTSELLER A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A profound meditation on what running can teach us about our limits and our lives by a record-setting distance runner who is now the CEO of The Atlantic. This is not just an engaging memoir about running. It s a meditation on what it takes to marshal and maintain motivation. ADAM GRANT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again Endlessly surprising, revelatory, and heart-rending. ANNA WINTOURFor Nicholas Thompson, running has always been about something more than putting one foot in front of another. He ran his first mile at age five, using it as a way to connect with his father as his family fell apart. As a young man, it was a sport that transformed, and then shook, his sense of self-worth. In his 30s, it was a way of coping with a profound medical scare. By his early 40s, Thompson had many accomplishments. He was the Editor in Chief of a major magazine; a devoted husband and father; and a passionate runner. But he was haunted by the recent death of his brilliant, complicated father and the crack-up that derailed his father s life. Had the intensity and ambition he d inherited made a personal crisis inevitable for him as well? Then a chance offer gave him the opportunity to train for the Chicago Marathon with elite coaches. Giving himself over to the sport more fully than ever before, he discovered that aging didn t necessarily p

• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780593244128
• Condition: Fine

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