Running: two years ago I was starting the most amazing journey of my life

Alexei Sorokin
4 min readMar 16, 2022

I don’t remember exactly how it happened. I have glimpses, flashbacks, some posts on Facebook.

We were at the beginning of the pandemic. Life had come to standstill.

Kind of a standstill! We’re never “standing” still in our family. My kids play sports and my wife’s intensity, the ability to keep everyone busy, is of an extraordinary kind. Even if you’re a guest at our house, you can never be a potato couch. She’ll make you hike. She’ll make you run. She’ll make you visit places…

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Alexei Sorokin

A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day. https://runningwritingliving.substack.com/