What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること, Hashiru Koto ni Tsuite Kataru Toki ni Boku no Kataru Koto) is a memoir by Haruki Murakami in which he writes about his interest and participation in long-distance running.

Murakami started running in the early 1980s and since then has competed in over twenty marathons and an ultramarathon.

He recalls his inspiration to become a novelist, which occurred while watching a baseball game: "The crack of bat meeting ball right on the sweet spot echoed through the stadium.

I still can remember the wide open sky, the feel of the new grass, the satisfying crack of the bat.

He writes of translating F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the complete works of Raymond Carver into Japanese.

On The Omnivore, an aggregator of British and American press reviews, the book received an score of 3 out of 5.