

I felt good by the end, sort of like I‘d just finished a quick run with a friend, chatting the whole time to keep a reasonable pace. Murakami‘s ideas scale to shorter distances, though you also get a feel for how your pain changes when you push further. This captures so much of what makes up the loneliness of any distance runner, many considerations I had not pondered before but then caught myself nodding in agreement with how Murakami phrased it.