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Run For Your Life

A Yearlong Journey Asking Why We Run
By Konrad Marshall
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Understanding the mindset of someone who voluntarily runs regularly is what journalist and sports writer, Konrad Marshall, has explored in Run For Your Life. He does this both by taking up running himself—committing to run every single day for a whole year, no excuses—and by talking... Read More
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Konrad Marshall takes us on an extraordinary journey, not just through his own year of constant running, but alongside some of Australia’s most fascinating runners to find out why we run.

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

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ISBN: 9781761451058

Publisher: Hardie Grant Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 January 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: Hardie Grant Books

Illustration: Text-only

Audience: General / adult

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Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 304

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About the Author

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.

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