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Oct 29, 2025
Join Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic and record-setting distance runner, for a conversation with The Atlantic’s Sally Jenkins about fathers, sons, and what running can teach us about our limits and our lives — and his new memoir, Running Ground: A Father, A Son, and the Simplest of Sports.
For Nicholas Thompson, running has always been about something more than putting one foot in front of another — a transformative experience of motivation, a crucial point of connection with his family, and a ballast against grief following the death of his troubled father. And Running Ground is more than a memoir — it is a profound meditation on aging, persistence, and the nearly spiritual experience that this most basic and beautiful of sports can awaken in us when we give ourselves over to it.
Hear Thompson and Jenkins discuss his story — a moving conversation about determination, grace, and how running can help us transcend some of the hardest moments in our lives.
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