Dr. George Sheehan on Running and Being

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In "Running and Being," Dr. George Sheehan says he found a new world in running.

“Where have all the heroes gone? They’ve gone with the simplicities and the pieties and the easy answers of another era. But that may not be all bad … not if our lack of such easy heroes can be an indication of the maturity of our age: a realization that every man has come into his own and has the capacity of making a success of his own life, of being able to say, ‘I have found my hero and he is me.’ “

These are the words of Dr. George Sheehan—runner, philosopher, writer, cardiologist. (Of the latter Sheehan says, “A cardiologist is a doctor who isn’t intelligent enough to be a general practitioner.’)

A man with a sense of humor, a sense of place, and a sense of self. We’re very happy to excerpt from his latest effort, Running and Being, The Total Experience, by Dr. George Sheehan copyright © 1978 by George A. Sheehan, M.D. Reprinted by permission of Simon and Schuster, a division of Gulf and Western Corp.

  • Published on Sep 1, 1978
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