What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by  Haruki Murakami

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to give himself to composing, Murakami started running to keep fit. A year afterward, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after handfuls of such races, not to specify triathlons and a dozen acclaimed books, he reflects upon the impact the don has had on his life and--even more important--on his composing. Rise to parts preparing log, travelog, and memory, this uncovering diary covers his four-month planning for the 2005 Unused York City Marathon and takes us to places extending from Tokyo's Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles Stream in Boston among youthful ladies who outpace him. Through this marvelous focal point of wear develops a display of recollections and experiences: the eureka minute when he chose to gotten to be an essayist, his most prominent triumphs and dissatisfactions, his energy for vintage LPs, and the involvement, after fifty, of seeing his race times progress and after that drop back.