Foreword by Dean Karnazes

The Start Line: 'And then I did what I have always done. I ran.'
Charlie Engle: 'When I run, I become the absolute epitome of who I am.'
Theresa Giammona: 'I know he was with me every step of the way.'
Isabel Hardman: 'I learn so much about how to cope with life when I go on a long run.'
Jessica Rigo: 'When I need that extra push to finish strong, I think of my fallen running partner . . . my chosen sister.'
Eleanor Keohane: 'I was an absolute mess. . . But I did it. I ran. Three times, sobbing my heart out.'
The Schneider Twins: 'I truly believe that running has saved my family.'
Sandra Laflamme: 'They said there was blood everywhere.'
Dan Keeley: 'You'd be hard-pressed to find a happier, more grateful person than I am right now.'
Caroline Elliott: 'Knowing that I ' m always recovering, one small step at a time.'
Sujan Sharma: 'I am so glad now that I had that hallucination.'
Linda Quirk: 'A disease so insidious that it captures the best in everyone.'
James Buzzell: 'Once you have seen dead people, you realise that death is real and that it is going to happen.'
Anji Andrews: 'I remember seeing a solitary robin . . . and thinking it was a sign my dad was watching.'
Emma Malcolm: '[Running] clears my mind and enables me to think about all the tough stuff.'
Lisa Hallett: 'I ran two of the ugliest miles ever, and it was the first time I accepted that John was not coming home.'
Serena Wooldridge: 'Through running there was light and hope at the end of the tunnel.'
Bryn Phillips: 'I remember thinking we are not going to survive.'
Hanny Allston: 'I have found a way to run for the absolute joy in the freedom it brings me.'
Kate Jayden: 'How could I let anyone steal running from me?'
Don Wright: 'I am exceedingly lucky to be here.'
Daniele Seiss: 'Running long distances . . . creates a sense of oneness that I can't explain.'
Carolyn Knights: '[He spent] his whole life wrapped in the loving arms of his mum and dad.'
Alastair Campbell: 'I see [running] as my best meeting of the day.'
Liz Dunning: 'I have got children. I am not going to concede their future to a world of guns.'
Danny Slay: 'It gave me an outlet to think, focus and unwind.'
Ana Febres-Cordero: 'I am amazing, I am strong, I am beautiful, I am kind.'
Lisa Taylor: 'Not only am I still here, I now have a lovely baby with my lovely husband.'
Jason Nelson: 'I put the barrel of my pistol in my mouth with my finger firmly on the trigger.'
Amanda Trafford: 'I wish I could scoop them all up and inspire them to run!'
Cherissa Jackson: 'Purging me from my grief and my sadness, my anger and my pain.'
Lynn Julian Crisci: 'In my mind, you win when you reach the start line, not the finish line.'
Paul Shepherd: 'My son would have become another fatherless child.'
Bryn Hughes: 'I was thinking if I allow myself to die, then evil will win.'
Stephanie Foley: 'Then we did as Sarah did - we ran with all our Hart!'
The Finish Line: 'A group of people I have come to admire hugely.'
Postscript: ' Better Things '

Appendix: The Science Behind the Transformative Power of Running
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