He sweats off the carbs.

The philosophy

"I love barbecue too much to be moderate about it. So I'm immoderate about running instead." Jeremy has run since high school, mostly at 5 a.m., mostly alone, often with a dog. He ran the Cooper City streets with Boukzam for six years. He runs them alone now, and faster, which he says is not an improvement.

Why every race is for charity

Because the first one was. In 2019 a shelter in Broward County was going to close, and Jeremy, who had just adopted a dog from it, ran a half marathon with a cooler of brisket strapped to his back and raised enough to keep it open through the summer. He has not run a race for himself since.

My Body is a River

In 2018 Jeremy kept a training diary on the garage wall in paint marker. Splits, miles, what he ate, what he smoked. He titled it, at the top, in his handwriting, "My body is a river," because that was how a long run felt to a seventeen-year-old who had just discovered one.

Scott saw it on one of his rare visits. Scott's health book, My Body is a River: Flow, Fuel and the Long Run, was published two years later. It did not mention the garage, the wall, or Jeremy.

Jeremy has never asked for credit publicly. He has, however, mentioned the wall on nine podcasts, in two cookbooks, in chapter thirteen of Kid Brother, and here. "I don't need the credit," he says. "I'd just like it noted that the river started in my garage, and that I'm the one who still runs."

"Scott wrote a book about running. I run. Those are different things, and only one of them hurts."Jeremy Garber, The Long Run