Running Home

A Memoir

De: Katie Arnold

Narrado por: Katie Arnold

In the tradition of Wild and H Is for Hawk, an Outside magazine writer tells her story - of fathers and daughters, grief and renewal, adventure and obsession, and the power of running to change your life.

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Real Simple

I’m running to forget, and to remember.

For more than a decade, Katie Arnold chased adventure around the world, reporting on extreme athletes who performed outlandish feats - walking high lines 1,000 feet off the ground without a harness, or running 100 miles through the night. She wrote her stories by living them, until eventually life on the thin edge of risk began to seem normal. After she married, Katie and her husband vowed to raise their daughters to be adventurous, too, in the mountains and canyons of New Mexico. But when her father died of cancer, she was forced to confront her own mortality.

His death was cataclysmic, unleashing a perfect storm of grief and anxiety. She and her father, an enigmatic photographer for National Geographic, had always been kindred spirits. He introduced her to the outdoors and took her camping and on bicycle trips and down rivers, and taught her to find solace and courage in the natural world. And it was he who encouraged her to run her first race when she was seven years old.

Now, nearly paralyzed by fear and terrified she was dying, too, she turned to the thing that had always made her feel most alive: running. Over the course of three tumultuous years, she ran alone through the wilderness, logging longer and longer distances, first a 50-kilometer ultramarathon, then 50 miles, then 100 kilometers. She ran to heal her grief, to outpace her worry that she wouldn’t live to raise her own daughters. She ran to find strength in her weakness. She ran to remember and to forget. She ran to live.

Ultrarunning tests the limits of human endurance over seemingly inhuman distances, and as she clocked miles across mesas and mountains, Katie learned to tolerate pain and discomfort, and face her fears of uncertainty, vulnerability, and even death itself. As she ran, she found herself peeling back the layers of her relationship with her father, discovering that much of what she thought she knew about him, and her own past, was wrong.

Running Home is a memoir about the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of our world - the stories that hold us back, and the ones that set us free. Mesmerizing, transcendent, and deeply exhilarating, it is an audiobook for anyone who has been knocked over by life, or feels the pull of something bigger and wilder within themselves.

"A beautiful work of searching remembrance and searing honesty... Katie Arnold is as gifted on the page as she is on the trail. Running Home will soon join such classics as Born to Run and Ultramarathon Man as quintessential reading of the genre." (Hampton Sides, author of On Desperate Ground and Ghost Soldiers)

©2019 Katie Arnold (P)2019 Random House Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"In her debut memoir, Running Home, Katie Arnold does an admirable job of trusting the everyday material of her life.... She writes a story exploring how her growing preoccupation with running has been intertwined with loving and losing her father. She takes the risk of being ordinary, and therefore human.... We want to know how other people live, and Arnold shows us." (The New York Times Book Review)

"Running Home is, as the name implies, a memoir about the sport. But it’s also an inspiring story about overcoming grief and discovering yourself." (Real Simple)

“Arnold masterfully captures the vulnerability of wading through grief with each step she takes towards self-discovery. This remarkable memoir will undoubtedly resonate with runners but equally so with children of divorce, new mothers, and those who have suffered the loss of a parent. An eloquent tribute to the complexity and vibrancy of a parent-child relationship.” (Booklist, starred review)

Not just about running

I got this book on the recommendation from Scott Kummer from Ten Junk Miles. Great book about life and going through losing a parent. Katie is a wonderful story teller.

Speaks more to women

This book speaks more to women than men. It is rare for men to have the same abandonment issues as fathers that leave. That being said, what of the greatest ending to a book I have ever read.

Super insightful and inspiring!

I loved this book!

It is for everyone. Insightful about all sorts of life experiences. Beautifully written, so descriptive.

I also feel inspired to run and explore.

Her will, passion, and love for running, keeping it together with her family life, is a very inspiring story. I truly loved it.

I honestly have to say this is by far, my most favourite book I’ve read this year. I didn’t dislike anything in the book. I loved every moment of it, especially coming from her directly. A true, true, true inspiration. Ironically, I am not a runner, but I felt like I was with her every step of her journey.

Excellent written

This was an excellent book that I heard while running. Thank you for sharing your story!

Loved it!

This book weaves together running, spirituality, motherhood, and loss in a really amazing way. The author does a great job of narrating and I couldn't stop listening.

Beautifully Written

Beautifully written memoir about life, running and loss. Lots to relate to and lots to take with you.

Running and Grief

The book focused more on a journey of grief than strictly running/training than I expected, but it was well written, and I enjoyed it.

Extraordinary

This booked moved me in so many ways. I never read a book twice but I am going back after listening to this and read and underline the words I want to remember!

Amazing Read!

Katie's journey is inspiring and honest and heartfelt. This is a must-read for any busy mother/runner trying to juggle the complexities of raising children while trying to use running to keep yourself sane and thriving.