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Editorial Review:
A memoir that covers Murakami's four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and settings ranging from Tokyo's Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
Disappointing: 
Was bought this book by my husband as I love running - for fun mainly and not to any great competitive level but do enjoy doing up to 1/2 M level . Thought the title intriguing however found the text quite mundane and really bland. V repetitive - pe");
document.write("rhaps I missed something deep in this book - however I don't think so. Would not recommend wasting time reading it if you are looking for inspiration. Perhaps would appeal more to a non runner. Feel sorry to write this as I was looking forward to a good read with... more info
Running as passion for life: 
A book to be read by those who identify themselves with the image of a/the long-distance runner (in all fields). I especially liked the idea of placing competition within oneself, thus projecting the image of a perfectionist.
In terms of (free) associatons, a qu");
document.write("otation that I immediately linked to this book is the end of William Faulkner's \"The Sound and the Fury\": \"They endured.\"
Last but not least I would also recommed this book as high level motivational literature, written in a funny style... more info
An extremely interesting memoir:
Murkami is a novelist, and this book is a memoir, a very different memoir for that matter.
I was walking in Copenhagen where I had a work meeting when I stumbled upon a bookshop that sells English book. I went in of course and found that they had a two books for 100 Krones (about 11 ");
document.write("Pounds) and several of Murakami's books were on that offer. I picked this book as I have just stopped smoking and wanted to improve my running and I thought it would inspire me. It certainly did!
I guess a hard part... more info
Wisdom for the short-distance reader:
This is deeply personal exploration of the author's life, or at least the last 25 years in which he has been both a successful writer and runner. It weaves between accounts of running marathons, his need to run in his daily life and insights from his personal philosophy in the most wonderful way, shifting");
document.write(" organically between writing and running, as if they were two sides of a coin. Indeed, he claims, the qualities he needs for writing are those he's learnt from running.
There are detailed descriptions... more info
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