WhatITalkAboutWhenITalkAboutRunning

Contents Title Page Foreword: Suffering Is Optional One: Who’s Going to Laugh at Mick Jagger? Two: Tips on Becoming a Running Novelist Three: Athens in Midsummer—Running 26.2 Miles for the First Time Four: Most of What I Know About Writing Fiction I Learned by Running Every Day Five: Even If I Had a Long Ponytail Back Then Six: Nobody Pounded the Table Anymore, Nobody Threw Their Cups Seven: Autumn in New York Eight: 18 Til I Die Nine: At Least He Never Walked Afterword: On Roads All Round the World Also by Haruki Murakami Copyright Foreword Suffering Is Optional There’s a wise saying that goes like this: A real gentleman never discusses women he’s broken up with or how much tax he’s paid. Actually, this is a total lie. I just made it up. Sorry! But if there really were such a saying, I think that one more condition for being a gentleman would be keeping quiet about what you do to stay healthy. A gentleman shouldn’t go on and on about what he does to stay fit. At least that’s how I see it. As everybody knows, I’m no gentleman, so maybe I shouldn’t be worrying about this to begin with, but still, I’m a little hesitant abou......