(from the Introduction) This book book travels through my post-Runner's World years. When the editor cut me loose in late 2003, I still had many more miles to go - on foot and as coach, as well as in print. These are stories about some of those miles. My column moved to Marathon & Beyond, where most of those pieces continued to tell, in serial form, what I kept doing after RW said I was done. The book rests heavily, though not exclusively, on those magazine columns.