To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking on a 5-K Makes You a Better Person and the World a Better Place
May 2011 · Sold by Rodale Books
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With an exuberant mix of passion, insight, instruction, and humor, best-selling author—and lifelong runner—Martin Dugard takes a journey through the world of running to illustrate how the sport helps us fulfill that universal desire to be the best possible version of ourselves each and every time we lace up our shoes.
To Be a Runner represents a new way to write about running by bridging the chasm between the two categories of running books: how-to and personal narrative. Spinning colorful yarns of his running and racing adventures on six continents—from competing in the infamous Raid Gauloises to coaching his son's high school cross-country team—Dugard considers what it means to truly integrate the activity into one's life. For example, how the simple act of buying a new pair of running shoes can be a source of meaning and hope. As entertaining as it is provocative, To Be a Runner is about far more than running: It is about life, and how we should live it.
To Be a Runner represents a new way to write about running by bridging the chasm between the two categories of running books: how-to and personal narrative. Spinning colorful yarns of his running and racing adventures on six continents—from competing in the infamous Raid Gauloises to coaching his son's high school cross-country team—Dugard considers what it means to truly integrate the activity into one's life. For example, how the simple act of buying a new pair of running shoes can be a source of meaning and hope. As entertaining as it is provocative, To Be a Runner is about far more than running: It is about life, and how we should live it.
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Shannon Torres
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September 4, 2018
Interesting collection of ramblings and reflections of a lifetime of running.
About the author
Martin Dugard is the New York Times bestselling author of several books of history with more than ten million copies in print. His book Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone has been adapted into a History Channel special. His writing has appeared in many popular magazines, including Esquire, Outside, Sports Illustrated, and GQ. Dugard was awarded the Press Club of Dallas's Katie Award for Best Magazine Sports Story in 1997. He now lives in Southern California with his wife and three sons.
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