Longer I Run: 100 Days Across America

by Steve Johnson

Overview

The physical fortitude to run 40 miles is in itself a laudatory feat. Repeating that performance 100 consecutive times, from one coast of the country to the other, is a spectacle. Doing it all as a recovering alcoholic fighting a debilitating intestinal disease would be impossible without one vital component—courage. Down for the count for far too many rounds in his life, Steve Knowlton summoned courage and sent it into the ring for the knockout blow to his challengers. That same grit propelled him forward, day after week after state, when all he wanted to do was stop. He ran over mountains and across open plains, through extreme heat, wind, rain, and cold, pushing a cart full of gear. He learned to run as an elementary school rebel, maturing into a marathoner. All grown up and battling dual enemies threatening to end his life, he turned to ultra-endurance challenges for inner peace. In the summer of 2012, he followed a 3,717-mile route to redemption. He ran with Crohn’s disease, attacking him since high school, and alcoholism, fighting with him since college. He ran to beat those adversaries, ran for forgiveness, ran for rebirth.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940046366433
Publisher:	Steve Johnson
Publication date:	10/22/2014
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	527 KB

About the Author

I stoked a fire for cycling on a long-ago father-son ride to northern Wisconsin, in a t-shirt, cut-offs and reject basketball shoes. A self-propelled recreation junkie and fan of all things outdoors, that first trip sparked a storytelling passion that continues with my recent cycling guidebook, the latest in a varied list of outdoor-focused titles. A regular contributor to Backpacker and regional magazines across the country, some of my other work includes Best Bike Ride Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota Waterfalls, Loop Hikes Colorado, Bicycling Wisconsin, Mountain Biking Minnesota, and spinoff projects like media guides for sporting events in the upper Midwest.
Part of the fourth generation of deep family roots in Wisconsin’s far north, I spent my formative years in that incomparable beauty of the North Country and rural, southern Minnesota, nurturing a strong affinity for the outdoors and piling up memories as a country kid. I'm showing my own two kids the finer things from those same vantage points. My passion for all things outdoors took me to the mountains in 1991, where I managed to earn a natural resources management degree at Colorado State University, in spite of irresistible alpine distractions. With a good kick in the creative butt from a former professor, I wrote my first book in the late 90s, and with an ambitious head of steam, have released at least one book every year since, in addition to an armload of consumer magazine articles.
My home base is…..wherever I happen to be. I roam between, and write from, where my heart is, in places like Wisconsin’s woods, Colorado’s mountains, and southern California. Naturally, my outlets are active, and I am either on a hiking trail wearing a backpack, or on my bicycle, wearing Lycra. A part-time racer and otherwise crazy-for-it, if I have a spare hour or five, I am on my bike.
I'll be Out There, living life at a higher latitude.