I just got to know that my new favorite author - Huraki Murakami is also a long distance runner.

"In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a slew of critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and - even more important - on his writing. Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and settings ranging from Tokyo's Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him.Through this marvelous lens of sport emerges a cornucopia of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs, and the experience, after fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back.By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" is rich and revelatory, both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in distance running."

Feel Like A Cat

Otsuka sat there thinking for a time "I assume you are aware of this, but cats are creatures of habit. Usually, they live very ordered lives and unless something extraordinary happens they generally try to keep to their routine. What might disrupt this is either sex or accident - one of the two"

"Nakata's thinking the same thing"

"If its sex then you just have to wait till they get it out of their system and they will be back. You understand what I mean by sex?"

----Kafka on the shore