A ten page preview of the book, “The Long Run,” came with my race packet. This was a good advertising move on their part since the story involves a man, Matt, who ran the same race that I was going to with one major difference: he was run over by a charter bus. The preview comes to an abrupt halt as the charter bus makes a sharp right, plowing him down as he was bicycling to train with his friends. The back cover mentions that he lives to run a marathon, but the three year journey from being pinned under 20 tons of weight to arriving at the starting line are unexplained. Once I returned home, I ventured into the bookstore located in the…