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What I talk about running is the first book I read about Haruki Murakami.

I chose to watch it simply because I like running, and then I like Haruki Murakami because I got a lot of songs from books. This kind of love is like a runner's appreciation for another runner. Even though we have never met, I often feel the same way when reading. If you think running is a troublesome thing, or a difficult thing, this book may not be suitable for you, and you will find it trivial and verbose to read. If you happen to be a runner like me, then I recommend you to read this book, because "some things are only understood by long-distance runners themselves".

So how does he talk about running in the book?

Haruki Murakami is a chubby person. Before becoming a novelist, she used to run a "store like a jazz club". She works extremely hard, busy from morning till night, so her weight remains relatively stable. However, since he became a writer, he has been working at his desk all day and gained weight. In order to keep his weight, and running is both in line with his temperament and simple, he began to run.

"Any razor has its own philosophy"-Haruki Murakami's understanding of this sentence is that even trivial things will have their own meaning as long as they persist. Running for a long time is no longer as simple as maintaining weight at first. Let the limited life live more perfectly, which is what he is looking for in running.

Haruki Murakami once had a bad marathon experience. At that time, he had a cramp in his leg in a race of more than 30 kilometers and was finally forced to finish the race on foot. Afterwards, he analyzed the reasons for the failure and thought that the amount of practice was not enough, so he began to pay attention to the accumulation of running amount.

This is the average of his daily, weekly and monthly runs recorded in 2005. He also believes that running 260 kilometers a month is only a serious running, and running 3 10 kilometers a month is a practical running. According to these two standards, I am neither serious nor solid most of the time. I think I've worked hard, but compared with him, it's nothing. As an amateur runner, he can still run like this. No wonder Japanese marathon runners are generally at a higher level.

Of course, if your running goal is only to pursue health, there is no need to accumulate such a large amount of running, but if you want to challenge the whole marathon, you must pay attention to the amount of running. If you want to run a full marathon easily and smoothly, you should run at least 200 kilometers a month.

Haruki Murakami believes that muscle has memory. If you give it a proper amount of load, it will adapt and bear, but if it is relaxed for too long, it will also relax. Therefore, the interruption of operation should not be too long, not more than two days.

Moreover, he also applied his understanding of muscle memory to writing, because writing novels is as manual work as running. He believes that the most important qualifications to become a novelist are talent, concentration and endurance in turn, but talent is difficult to meet, and concentration and endurance can be obtained through intensive muscle training. As long as you concentrate on writing every day, pass the information you want to write to your body system, let it remember, give it stimulation, raise its threshold a little, and keep writing, you will definitely get the corresponding reward in the end.

Marathon must be completed by running, even if you slow down, you must never walk. This is a principle set by Haruki Murakami. It was with the principle that he gritted his teeth and completed his own100km ultramarathon. His description of this race deeply influenced me. It can be said that it was his principles that guided me to persist in running the tortured Haikou Marathon. Whenever I have the idea of giving up, I will recall this description. If I walk for a while, I will stop for the second and third time in the rest of the journey ..... and eventually become a stop-and-go race. To make matters worse, if I have one, I will have two, and I will easily give up the Sanya Marathon.

Although this book is about running, it also has some thought-provoking life philosophies:

Haruki Murakami said: Writing is an unhealthy business. This is probably because writers need to sit at their desks for a long time, which has been recognized as unhealthy behavior. In addition, at a certain age, people's physical fitness begins to decline from the peak, and writers' creativity gradually dries up. Haruki Murakami called this exhaustion of creativity "the haggard of literature". In order to avoid this "haggard way" and keep his body energetic as much as possible, he has always insisted on running. Running is for the long-term development of his career, and I think this is also his motivation to be a lifelong runner. Health is the need of work, so friends who say they are too busy to run should learn from Haruki Murakami.

Human nature is lazy, and running is something that needs sweat, time and energy, which is contradictory to human nature's laziness. Even people who like running and often run, such as Haruki Murakami, and Seko Toshihiko, a Japanese Olympic long-distance runner whom he interviewed, are inevitably tired. There are many reasons why I don't want to run, such as fatigue, busy work and entertainment. What should I do? In fact, Haruki Murakami has given his own countermeasures in the book-constantly polishing the reasons for letting you run. For example, if you are running to lose weight, record your body shape changes, take a photo every once in a while, and compare it with the previous photos to motivate yourself to continue running.

Haruki Murakami's writing career began at 1978, when he was 30 years old. At the same time, I wrote two works, Listening to the Wind and Pinball at 1973. In order to create better works, he closed the profitable storefront business regardless of the opposition around him. I concentrate on writing for three or four hours every day, and I have been writing for 29 years by 2007.

In running, from 1982 to the time when the book was completed in 2007, according to the standard of 260 kilometers a month, he ran at least 3 120 kilometers a year and at least 78,000 kilometers in 25 years. He ran a marathon once a year from 1983 and completed 24 marathons.

This is amazing perseverance. 29 and 25, it is not enough to understand such persistence as hard work. He has internalized these two kinds of persistence into love. All persistence is because of love, so judging whether a person really likes to do something depends on his actions and whether he can persist for a long time. Similarly, if you want to stick to one thing, try to cultivate a feeling of love.

This book is not a technical guide. Its reading significance lies in providing some spiritual encouragement. Running is an interesting thing. I hope this article can help you.