Outrunning the Demons

Foreword by Dean Karnazes The Start Line: ‘And then I did what I have always done. I ran.’ Charlie Engle: ‘When I run, I become the absolute epitome of who I am.’ Theresa Giammona: ‘I know he was with me every step of the way.’ Isabel Hardman: ‘I learn so much about how to cope with life when I go on a long run.’ Jessica Rigo: ‘When I need that extra push to finish strong, I think of my fallen running partner . . . my chosen sister.’ Eleanor Keohane: ‘I was an absolute mess. . . But I did it. I ran. Three times, sobbing my heart out.’ The Schneider Twins: ‘I truly believe that running has saved my family.’ Sandra Laflamme: ‘They said there was blood everywhere.’ Dan Keeley: ‘You’d be hard-pressed to find a happier, more grateful person than I am right now.’ Caroline Elliott: ‘Knowing that I ’ m always recovering, one small step at a time.’ Sujan Sharma: ‘I am so glad now that I had that hallucination.’ Linda Quirk: ‘A disease so insidious that it captures the best in everyone.’ James Buzzell: ‘Once you have seen dead people, you realise that death is real and that it is going to happen.’ Anji Andrews: ‘I remember seeing a solitary robin . . . and thinking it was a sign my dad was watching.’ Emma Malcolm: ‘[Running] clears my mind and enables me to think about all the tough stuff.’ Lisa Hallett: ‘I ran two of the ugliest miles ever, and it was the first time I accepted that John was not coming home.’ Serena Wooldridge: ‘Through running there was light and hope at the end of the tunnel.’ Bryn Phillips: ‘I remember thinking we are not going to survive.’ Hanny Allston: ‘I have found a way to run for the absolute joy in the freedom it brings me.’ Kate Jayden: ‘How could I let anyone steal running from me?’ Don Wright: ‘I am exceedingly lucky to be here.’ Daniele Seiss: ‘Running long distances . . . creates a sense of oneness that I can’t explain.’ Carolyn Knights: ‘[He spent] his whole life wrapped in the loving arms of his mum and dad.’ Alastair Campbell: ‘I see [running] as my best meeting of the day.’ Liz Dunning: ‘I have got children. I am not going to concede their future to a world of guns.’ Danny Slay: ‘It gave me an outlet to think, focus and unwind.’ Ana Febres-Cordero: ‘I am amazing, I am strong, I am beautiful, I am kind.' Lisa Taylor: ‘Not only am I still here, I now have a lovely baby with my lovely husband.’ Jason Nelson: ‘I put the barrel of my pistol in my mouth with my finger firmly on the trigger.’ Amanda Trafford: ‘I wish I could scoop them all up and inspire them to run!’ Cherissa Jackson: ‘Purging me from my grief and my sadness, my anger and my pain.’ Lynn Julian Crisci: ‘In my mind, you win when you reach the start line, not the finish line.’ Paul Shepherd: ‘My son would have become another fatherless child.’ Bryn Hughes: ‘I was thinking if I allow myself to die, then evil will win.’ Stephanie Foley: ‘Then we did as Sarah did – we ran with all our Hart!’ The Finish Line: ‘A group of people I have come to admire hugely.’ Postscript: ‘ Better Things ’ Appendix: The Science Behind the Transformative Power of Running Acknowledgements References About the Author