The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports | Chart listen

This week’s list includes The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports, from Nicholas Thompson. Press play and stay for every chapter.

A profound meditation on what running can teach us about our limits and our lives by a record-setting distance runner who is now the CEO of The Atlantic. “This is not just an engaging memoir about running. It’s a meditation on what it takes to marshal and maintain motivation.”—ADAM GRANT, #1 New York Times widely followed novelist of Hidden Potential and Think Again “Endlessly surprising, revelatory, and heart-rending.”—ANNA WINTOUR For Nicholas Thompson, running has always been about something more than putting one foot in front of another. He ran his first mile at age five, using it as a way to connect with his father as his family fell apart. As a young man, it was a sport that transformed, and then shook, his sense of self-worth. In his 30s, it was a way of coping with a profound medical

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