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David Sedaris audiobooks are awesome. I get bored just reading his books, but hearing him tell the stories makes them great.
Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to
remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
~ Sarah Kay
Consistently Slow
Run until the trail runs out.
SCHEDULE 2016--
The pain that hurts the worse is the imagined pain. One of the most difficult arts of racing is learning to ignore the imagined pain and just live with the present pain (which is always bearable.) - Jeff
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Imminent Catastrophe
"Able to function despite imminent catastrophe"
"To obtain the air that angels breathe you must come to Tahoe"--Mark Twain
"The most common question from potential entrants is 'I do not know if I can do this' to which I usually answer, 'that's the whole point'.--Paul Charteris, Tarawera Ultramarathon RD.
√ Javelina Jundred Jalloween 2015
Cruel Jewel 50 mile May 2016
Western States 100 June 2016
Just don't run with this book, it's dangerous.
I would almost certainly like both of those...they crack me up. BTW, does anyone know who reads Barack Obama's books? I'm assuming he does the reading...at least I would hope that's the case.
Barack Obama reads both of his books
11 years ago so bump it up: just finished Andre Agassis Open, too many match stories in the end. But it was entertaining. I love the freakonomics podcasts. They are well done and Steven Dubner rocks. I am through most of the running books I believe. Including the Iron War and the Ultra books. Any recommendations for good podcasts or books? I am an audible person, less fictions more facts.
HM: 1:47 (9/20) I FM: 3:53:11 (9/23)
2024 Goals: run a FM & HM + stay healthy!
Just read Matt Fitzgerald's Running the Dream: One Summer Living, Training, and Racing with a Team of World-Class Runners Half My Age. It's his experience as a 40-something runner training with the Northern Arizona Elite for 13 weeks before the Chicago Marathon in 2017. I found it pretty inspiring as a masters runner myself. Now I'm on a tear watching and reading all NAZ Elite stuff I can find (this book on top of Aliphine winning the trials has got me pretty stoked). Currently reading Ben Rosario (NAZ Elite coach) and Scott Fauble's collaboration Inside A Marathon. That one won't work as an audiobook... too many footnotes and there are charts with his weekly training. Scott's got a pretty good sense of humor and the footnotes make me think he's read David Foster Wallace for sure. Currently listening to Kevin Hart on the Joe Rogan Podcast. His interview with Alex Honnold was fun. He's interviewed Courtney Dauwalter and Zach Bitter in the past. Rich Roll has got a bunch of good podcast interviews, lots of good stuff back in the archives there. I really like Mario Frailoli's The Morning Shakeout Podcast as well as The Billy Yang Podcast (both running related with quality interviews). The only podcast that I listen to without fail is not running related but I find fun is The Dumbbells podcast, a fitness podcast by 2 comedians out of Los Angeles. Just a couple of guys giving each other a hard time and making inappropriate jokes with lots of great ideas on fitness mixed in.
Joann, thank you for taking the time to answer. I had to organise your thoughts though, it was just too many and will help me work through those:
I don't have any more credits on audible, so will start with Kevin Hart / Joe Rogan and see if Billy Yang is just as good with podcasts, as he is with his epic videos. The Dumbbells - inappropriate jokes and some fitness content? That is right up my alley. I will report back!
Haha. Thanks for organizing. Yeah, I was starting to type something up about the latest Rich Roll's being too hipsy dipsy but then took it out. What have been some of your top running books that you've read? I've read a lot of them but def not all. Oh, Running with the Buffaloes was awesome and Bernd Heinrich's Why We Run too... once you get more audible credits.