Review: How running helped a young mother cope with grief
By Christie Aschwanden March 14 at 3:00 PM Grief has a way of reawakening us to our own bodies. When Katie Arnold’s father was diagnosed with cancer, she turned to running — not for speed or for fitness but “to get out of the house and escape the dread,” she writes in her memoir, “Running Home.” She ran “to feel normal again, and just a little bit alive.”
Arnold became a runner at the age of 7, “by accident.” She was visiting her father in Virginia when he suggested that Arnold and her older sister enter a local 10k race. “The distance was so audacious that it meant absolutely nothing to me. I had never run a race, never a single mile, let alone six, all in a row,” she writes. The siblings agreed to run while their father, a National Geographic photographer, documented the event.
The author Katie Arnold Not long after her father died, Arnold signed up for a 31-mile ultramarathon, and soon she was running in 50- and even 100-mile events. She writes with candor about the strain her running sometimes put on her marriage.
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