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As everybody knows, I’m no gentleman, so maybe I shouldn’t be worrying about this to begin
No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act. As
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you start to think, Man this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The hurt part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand any more is up
to the runner himself. This pretty much sums up the most important aspect of marathon running. It’s
which I’d recorded on an MD disc.
To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm. This is the important thing for long-term projects. Once you set the pace, the rest will follow. The problem is getting the flywheel to
spin at a set speed—and to get to that point takes as much concentration and effort as you can manage.
Running without a break for more than two decades has also made me stronger, both physically and emotionally.
The thing is, I’m not much for team sports.
I never feel comfortable. Maybe it’s because I don’t have any brothers, but I could never get into the kind of games you play with others.
the competitive aspect makes me uncomfortable.
Most ordinary runners are motivated by an individual goal, more than anything: namely, a time they want to beat.
Just like it’s not good to mix friends and work, and sex.
I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself.
I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.
through personal experience I discovered how to be sociable.
The desire in me to be alone hasn’t changed.
What exactly do I think about when I’m running? I don’t have a clue.
Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.
Of course I have a certain amount of intelligence—at least I think I do. If I totally lacked that there’d be no way I could write novels.
It was a long time ago that I first started running on an everyday basis. Specifically, it was the fall of 1982. I was thirty-three then.
Just startes atf 33 as well. Happy with ons own comapy and running i feelkke this boom cojld be abojt me.
I never would have been able to make it on my own.
Running has a lot of advantages. First of all, you don’t need anybody else to do it, and no need for special equipment.
You don’t have to go to any special place to do it. As long as you have running shoes and a good road you can run to your heart’s content.
When I was at school I never much cared for gym class, and always hated Sports Day.
I never could stand being forced to do something
Just as with school, you enter it, learn something, and then it’s time to leave.
People are at their best at different times of day, but I’m definitely a morning person.
I could hae writteb this book!!!
could only run for about twenty minutes, or thirty.
But as I continued to run, my body started to accept the fact that it was running, and I could gradually increase the distance.
found out the hard way that the toughest part of a marathon comes after twenty-two miles.
Along with this, my diet started to gradually change as well.
Forcing people who have no desire to run, or who aren’t physically fit enough, is a kind of pointless torture.
High scool gym teachers should read this book
The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.
really nap a lot.
I love this man naps are the best
Anyway, I’m the type of person who, once he gets sleepy, can fall sound asleep anywhere.
the New York City Marathon
There apparently aren’t too many novelists who run marathons
Sometimes the world baffles me.
Can’t imagine many of them have ever seen an Oriental man running down the pre-dawn streets of Athens before.
When I lick my lips they taste like anchovy paste.
What’s with this heat, anyway?
Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.
Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you’re going to while away the years, it’s far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive than in a fog, and I believe running helps you do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life—and for me, for writing as well. I believe many runners would agree.
If I go for a time without seeing water, I feel like something’s slowly draining out of me.
Serously i feel like this book is in my mind!
a lot of people in Japan seem to hold the view that writing novels is an unhealthy activity,
In my own small way I felt the same fear that sailors of old must have felt.
By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical.
Maybe a school of vicious, poisonous jellyfish.
I’m not the type who gets along easily with others, but for some reason with other triathletes I have no problem.
