![]() ![]() I stop every day right at the point where I feel I can write more. This is the same sort of tack I find necessary when writing a novel. ![]() Sometimes I run fast when I feel like it, but if I increase the pace I shorten the amount of time I run, the point being to let the exhilaration I feel at the end of each run carry over to the next day. Murakami says of the relationship between writing and running: They say they can only write the way they do because they run – although Murakami, who owned a jazz bar in Tokyo and used to smoke 60 ciggies a day, initially ran to get fit. Some of these writers, like Murakami, explore the relationship between running and creativity. And last week, Australian writer Catriona Menzies-Pike released her memoir on women and running: The Long Run. There’s the classic Born To Run by Christopher McDougall, Haruki Murakami’s elegant What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, and for those who prefer walking, there’s Wild by Cheryl Strayed. Witness the burgeoning genre of the ‘exercise memoir’. ![]() Yet writers are increasingly coming out as runners. Plus you can do things while sitting, like reading books, and maybe even writing them. ![]()
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