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Tom Foreman
Memoir & Personal Growth
Tom Foreman is an American broadcast journalist and author known for decades of reporting for national news outlets and a memoir about long-distance running.
Biography
Tom Foreman (born December 6, 1959) is an American broadcast journalist whose reporting experience spans more than three decades. He began as a local television reporter in Montgomery, Alabama, at WSFA and moved on to WWL-TV in New Orleans. In 1990 he relocated to Denver as a national network correspondent for ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and Nightline. In 2000 he signed with National Geographic, anchoring National Geographic Today and Inside Base Camp, and won an Emmy as best interviewer. He joined CNN in 2004 and works out of CNN’s Washington, D.C., bureau, covering breaking political news, international crises and other major stories; his career has taken him to all 50 states and more than 20 countries.
Foreman is also the author of a memoir about long-distance running. The book recounts a late-life running journey prompted when his 18-year-old daughter asked him to run a marathon with her, and it traces his training, races and reflections on parenting, aging and personal perseverance.
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Books by Tom Foreman
My year of running dangerously
My Year of Running Dangerously recounts Foreman’s transformation from a reluctant, out-of-shape man approaching 51 into an endurance runner after his daughter’s request to run a marathon together. Over sixteen weeks and roughly 2,000 miles of training he completed four half-marathons, three marathons and a 55-mile race, and frames the experience as a meditation on parenting, aging and perseverance.