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The Running GroundBy: Nicholas Thompson NATIONAL BESTSELLER A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A profound meditation on what running can teach us about our limits and our lives by a record setting distance runner who is now the CEO of The Atlantic. This is not just an engaging memoir about running. Its a meditation on what it takes to marshal and maintain motivation.ADAM GRANT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again Endlessly
By: Nicholas ThompsonNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A profound meditation on what running can teach us about our limits and our lives by a record-setting distance runner who is now the CEO of The Atlantic.
“This is not just an engaging memoir about running. It’s a meditation on what it takes to marshal and maintain motivation.”—ADAM GRANT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again
“Endlessly surprising, revelatory, and heart-rending.”—ANNA WINTOUR
For Nicholas Thompson, running has always been about something more than putting one foot in front of another. He ran his first mile at age five, using it as a way to connect with his father as his family fell apart. As a young man, it was a sport that transformed, and then shook, his sense of self-worth. In his 30s, it was a way of coping with a profound medical scare.
By his early 40s, Thompson had many accomplishments. He was the Editor in Chief of a major magazine; a devoted husband and father; and a passionate runner. But he was haunted by the recent death of his brilliant, complicated father and the crack-up that derailed his father’s life. Had the intensity and ambition he’d inherited made a personal crisis inevitable for him as well?
Then a chance offer gave him the opportunity to train for the Chicago Marathon with elite coaches. Giving himself over to the sport more fully than ever before, he discovered that aging didn’t necessarily put you on an unbroken trajectory of decline. For seven years after his father died, Thompson transforms his body to perform at its highest capacity, and the profound discipline and awareness he builds along the way changes every aspect of his life. Throughout the narrative, he weaves in stories of remarkable men and women who have used the sport to transcend some of the hardest moments in life.
The Running Ground is a story about fathers, sons, and the most basic and most beautiful of sports.
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Survived my dog… which almost nothing does!
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I have a pit mix who is an expert-level destroyer of squeaky toys. Most “durable” toys last her maybe 5–15 minutes before the squeaker is gone.
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The flat shape makes it hard for her to get a good “kill grip”
The squeaker isn’t easy to isolate and destroy
It keeps her engaged instead of just ripping it open immediately
She actually spent a lot of time just booping it with her nose to make it squeak, which she loves.
I ended up putting it away before she could eventually destroy it, and I’ll be rotating it to make it last longer. It’s now a high-value toy in our house.
If you have a dog that destroys every squeaky toy in minutes, this is absolutely worth trying. I’m already planning to buy more from this line.
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This product is pretty strong, but my dog tore it apart in 5 minutes. The size is great, and my dog loved tearing it apart. I wish it lasted longer.
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Excellent quality and durability.My pets really enjoy it and it's almost impossible to damage it!!
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★★★★★ 5
By far the best chew toy for aggressive dog chewers
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Definitely high quality very durable very indestructible chew toy my dog destroys just about every toy I get him and this I will say he’s haven a hard time with destroying this 1 so that being said all I can say is highly recommend this chew toy for your aggressive dog chewer
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This toy is AMAZING. My dog still loves to play with it every week, and somehow by magic it hasn't been broken once. We have had it for 9 months, that is a record for toys in our house. If you are on the fence, just get it already. Ours doesn't squeak anymore obviously, but we still play tug a war with it a lot and it flops and bends and bounces just fine!!
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