What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること, Hashiru Koto ni Tsuite Kataru Toki ni Boku no Kataru Koto) is a memoir by Haruki Murakami in which he writes about his interest and participation in long-distance running. The book is translated by Philip Gabriel. Murakami started running in the early 1980s and since then has competed in over twenty marathons and an ultramarathon. The book's title was inspired by Raymond Carver's collection of short stories entitled What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
English language
Published Aug. 11, 2009
Really enjoyed this, even more that I thought I would. It’s a quick read, but so much of it resonated with me. I think there’s some small issues here and there, such as maybe the translation assuming the reader is a him, but I think it spoke to the core of why people run. In high school XC, the running line was that you had to be a little off to want to run XC, and this book did a great job at being able to explain it what ways we’re all a little off.
aligns well with how i think about running as an introvert, and someone who does marathons.
some of the points are opinionated, i am sure there are some people that will not connect with this book. however, i did.
