“I did not become a runner to lose weight, I did it to escape my computer”

I love Matthew Inman — if you’ve never checked out his comics, do so right now!

“Running a race assigns a point to a sport that often feels very pointless. It’s an exuberant payoff to months of tedium. It’s a way of crafting an end boss for a particularly cumbersome video game. It’s a fun, monstrous reason to keep putting one foot in front of the other. So, do yourself a favor: go build a monster.”

Inman writes a lot about his running on his website, and I’ve always enjoyed it. I run, too, although generally shorter distances than he does (I’m doing my first half-marathon in December — he’s run several full marathons). I love his writing because he runs for the same reason I do: in order to justify eating like a maniac, and to escape what’s wrong with my brain.

 

This book is full of his comics in his signature style. I recognized quite a few from the internet (which are always fun to re-read), and there’s new material, too. He’s a very funny man, and I recommend everything he touches!