Short Runs
Jamie ChesbroA monthly column of short essays to fuel your running life with the wellsprings of inspiration.
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Author Interview | Brendan O’Meara in conversation with Jamie Chesbro
In this interview with Brendan O’Meara, we celebrate the birthday of the paperback edition of The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine. We discuss burrowing beneath the mythology of an iconic figure in American running to discover a...
What’s Your Favorite Race Distance?
One time when I was running past a gas station seven miles from home, a guy shouted at me while leaning out the driver’s side window of his truck. “Are you lost?” he asked. I looked up and immediately recognized Eric, my good friend and nex...
What The Odyssey can Teach Runners about Coming Home
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Some of the most honest thoughts I have about running occur right after a race, when the weight of the finisher medal knocks against my sternum as I walk tow...
Grief Runs
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One of my usual routes involves running along a lake that leads to a dam, where the water spills over 30 feet below churning and frothing and splashing in an...
Are You Running to Live, or Living to Run?
“In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be,” writes Haruki Murakami in, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. I love this book. It reads to me like the free-flowing thoughts of a...
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Jamie Chesbro is a distance runner and the author of the essay collection, A Lion in the Snow (Woodhall Press, 2018). His writing has appeared in: The Writer's Chronicle, Zone 3, The Millions, Lit Hub, and the 2026 Connecticut Literary Anthology.
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