Running Ransom Road: Confronting the Past, One Marathon at a Time (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
The monikers drunk, addict, abuser, and boozehound were Caleb Daniloff’s for 15 years. Now, the introduction that fits him best is "My name is Caleb and I am a runner."
In Running Ransom Road, Daniloff, many years sober, confronts his past by setting out, over the course of 18 months, to run marathons in the cities where he once lived and wreaked havoc. Competing from Boston to New York, Vermont to Moscow, Daniloff explores the sobering and inspiring effects of running as he traverses the trails of his former self, lined with dark bars, ratty apartments, lost loves, and lost chances. With each race he comes to understand who he is, and by extension who he was, and he finds he is not alone. There are countless souls in sneakers running away from something, or better, running past and through whatever it is that haunts them.
In this powerful story of ruin, running, and redemption, Daniloff illuminates the connection between running and addiction and shows that the road to recovery is an arduous but conquerable one. Strapping on a pair of Nikes won't banish all your demons, but it can play an important role in maintaining a clean life. For Daniloff, sweat, strained lungs, and searing muscles are among the paving stones of empowerment, and, if he's lucky, perhaps even self-forgiveness.
Customer Reviews
Running Ransom Road
Great book about running,healing, and most of all how the two fit together.
Couldn't Make it Through
I tried several times...to get through this bookk because the subject interested me but I just couldn't get through it. It might have been the narrator's dull flat voice. He sounded like he was trying on purpose to make his voice sound very monotone so it would match the "down-and-out" story. Maybe it was the author's use of adjective after adjective to describe pretty much EVERYTHING like he was trying to impress his high school English teacher. Born to Run is a much more enjoyable book.