Run For Your Life

A Yearlong Journey Asking Why We Run

Konrad Marshall

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Hardie Grant Books
28 January 2026

Exercise & workout books; Sports & outdoor recreation; Active outdoor pursuits

Understanding the mindset of someone who voluntarily runs regularly is what journalist and sports writer, Konrad Marshall, has explored in Run For Your Life, both by taking up running himself – committing to run every single day for a whole year, no excuses – and talking to and running with some of Australia’s most interesting runners – whether professional or casual runners – from Gout Gout to Grace Tame to Olympians and doctors. With his nose for a story, Konrad gathers the lessons learned as he runs with others on sporting fields, in marathons, on beaches and country trails, and discovers what tested their resolve, the relationships that developed, and the importance running is to their lives.

He includes chapters with Grace Tame, Trent Dalton, Gout Gout, Jelena Dokic, Jessica Hull, Andy Griffiths, Emma Carney, Libby Birch, Jack Riewoldt, Peter Bol, Steve Moneghetti, Nedd Brockmann, Hugh Van Cuylenburg among others.

Konrad shares the collective wisdom of the people who run, in a deeply reported first-person account of a year in constant motion.

By: Konrad Marshall
Imprint: Hardie Grant Books
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
ISBN: 9781761451058
ISBN 10: 1761451057
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 28 January 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Konrad Marshall is a senior writer for Good Weekend magazine. An acclaimed long-form journalist specialising in sport, art and science, his work has appeared in The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Indianapolis Star, The Florida Times-Union and The Post-Star. Konrad is also the author of Yellow & Black (2017), Stronger & Bolder (2019) and The Hard Way (2020) and has collaborated on memoirs with tennis icon Ash Barty, and transgender advocate Danielle Laidley. He has twice been named print journalist of the year by Sport Australia, and is the only two time winner of the Harry Gordon Australian Sports Journalist of the Year.