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Why We Run: The People, Moments, and History Behind Modern Running

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For readers of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run and Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Emmy-winning broadcaster Toni Reavis draws on five decades inside distance running—from the first running boom and history’s greatest marathon duels to Boston Strong and today’s global running culture—to reveal how the sport became a source of identity, healing, community, defiance, and meaning.

Running seems absurd. Day after day, runners push themselves to exhaustion. On ra...