Peter Sagal, the host of NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! and a
popular columnist for Runner's World, shares "commentary and
reflection about running with a deeply felt personal story, this
book is winning, smart, honest, and affecting. Whether you are a
runner or not, it will move you" (Susan Orlean). On the verge of
turning forty, Peter Sagal-brainiac Harvard grad, short bald Jew
with a disposition towards heft, and a sedentary star of public
radio-started running seriously. And much to his own surprise, he
kept going, faster and further, running fourteen marathons and
logging tens of thousands of miles on roads, sidewalks, paths, and
trails all over the United States and the world, including the 2013
Boston Marathon, where he crossed the finish line moments before
the bombings. In The Incomplete Book of Running, Sagal reflects on
the trails, tracks, and routes he's traveled, from the humorous
absurdity of running charity races in his underwear-in St. Louis,
in February-or attempting to "quiet his colon" on runs around his
neighborhood-to the experience of running as a guide to visually
impaired runners, and the triumphant post-bombing running of the
Boston Marathon in 2014. With humor and humanity, Sagal also writes
about the emotional experience of running, body image, the
similarities between endurance sports and sadomasochism, the legacy
of running as passed down from parent to child, and the odd but
extraordinary bonds created between strangers and friends. The
result is "a brilliant book about running...What Peter runs toward
is strength, understanding, endurance, acceptance, faith, hope, and
charity" (P.J. O'Rourke).
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