Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human

Okay, so exercise is paradoxical: salubrious but abnormal, intrinsically free but highly commodified, a source of pleasure and health but a cause of discomfort, guilt, and opprobrium. Why did this realization motivate me to write this book? And why might you wish to read it?

Running doesn’t get easier with age, but the payoffs grow greater. While none of us can know for sure that running will add years to our life, there’s no doubt it will add life to our years. Which is far more rewarding.