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Looking for a few good reads -- what are your favorite running (or related) books?
Two that I'm considering are:
Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind, by Sakyong Mipham
and
Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness, by Scott Jurek
Anyone read either of those?
Mmmmm...beer
I read Eat & Run last month, good book.
-Dave
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Goals | sub-18 5k | sub-3 marathon 2:56:46!!
"Once a Runner" by John L. Parker; the Trial of Miles, miles of trials.......................
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
The long walk- Richard Bachman
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More commonly known as Stephen King.
UltraMarathon Man: Confessions of An All-Night Runner by Dean Karnazes
Running With The Buffaloes
Born To Run
Running Tide by Joan Benoit
jules2
How about
http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Run_to_the_Hills.html?id=deqYQAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
Old age is when you move from illegal to prescribed drugs.
"Unbroken" is the true story of Louis Zamperini. He was a runner, but the story is about more than that. I highly recommend it.
Village people
+1000000 I loved that book!
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
I read it in a couple of days when I first took up running a few years ago. It didn't transform me into a barefoot runner, but it did inspire me. Great book!
Best book related to running I've ever read. It's never going to win any prizes for literary style but I've never been so excited to run as when I finished this baby.
Tiefsa
Once a Runner is very good - Here's a few more suggestions
Born to Run
An Honorable Run
The Perfect Mile * This one is my favorite running book.
Running With the Buffaloes.
Distinctively Juvenile
Not dead. Yet.
How can we know our limits if we don't test them?
Duel in the Sun- about more than just the famous Boston Marathon duel of Dick Beardsley and Alberto Salazar, it also is a short biography of each of them.
PBs since age 60: 5k- 24:36, 10k - 47:17. Half Marathon- 1:42:41.
10 miles (unofficial) 1:16:44.