Taylor
Taylor asked Jennifer Weiner:

"Who Do You Love" was one of my favorite reads this year! I'm a runner who frequently reads running websites (especially LetsRun), so I'm interested on how you did your research. Your descriptions of the professional running world seemed pretty spot on! Did you go to any meets or interview any pros?

Jennifer Weiner Thanks for reading WHO DO YOU LOVE! I’m a runner, too – a very slow, proud back-of-the-pack runner – but I loved the idea of running as a metaphor. We run away from things that hurt us, we run toward the things we want, and, sometimes, we just run around in circles.
For research, I read a LOT of runners’ memoirs – Dean Karnazas and Mo Farah’s books were favorites – and novels about running specifically, and the lives of elite athletes in general (Lionel Shriver’s DOUBLE FAULT is about tennis, but it’s also about how people whose careers rise and fall on the strength and agility of their bodies have to live). I spent a lot of time on runners’ websites, I interviewed actual runners, and coaches – no Olympians, alas, but people who’d been track stars in college. In the end, I took everything I’d learned and I tried to put myself in Andy’s head, and in his body, and imagine what it felt like to be him.

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