The 27th Mile: How to Smooth the Rough Transition Out of Your Running Years

From a former contributing editor at Runner's World, a narrative-driven prescriptive book on reckoning with the end of an athletic journey-and what comes next.

On January 18, 2020, Dimity McDowell unknowingly went on her last run. The deceleration of her running career began three years before that, following a medical visit which ended in the assessment that she should not run anymore. She should have quit then and there. But running is not like other hobbies; the sport anchored major par...