Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human

Footnotes is a journey through literature, philosophy, and biology that explores why running means so much to so many people.

It takes readers out to tread London's cobbled streets, climb sites that have seen a millennium of hangings, and down crumbling alleyways of Ruskin's Venice.

The book transports readers to the clifftops of Hardy's Dorset, the deserted shorelines of Seattle, the giant redwood forests of California, and the world's most advanced running laboratories and research centers.

Through debates in literature, philosophy, and biology, Footnotes reminds us why feeling the earth beneath our feet is a necessary and healing part of our lives.