Jack Reddecliff

“Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote.”
― Nicholas Thompson, The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports

“She was running to be free and to be spiritually connected to the earth.”
― Nicholas Thompson, The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports

“You’re not running to seek shelter; you’re running because you seek the storm.”
― Nicholas Thompson, The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports

“Don’t you EVER,’ he looked back at us, over his shoulder, ‘wish away what is strange about you. You don’t know what got you here. It’s not normal. None of this is normal. It’s not normal to be this good at anything. You’re only here ’cause of what’s bloody wrong with you. Don’t you ever let me hear you wishing you was more normal. Alright?’ ”
― Nicholas Thompson, The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports