Sorry for starting two threads today but thought this newspaper article (Guardian, 03/07/19) might be of interest.
Do you recommend any of these?
Have they missed your favourite? If so, what is it?
(Can’t find an online version, hence the photo.)
Sorry for starting two threads today but thought this newspaper article (Guardian, 03/07/19) might be of interest.
Do you recommend any of these?
Have they missed your favourite? If so, what is it?
(Can’t find an online version, hence the photo.)
Born to Run is a great book! Someone bought me Feet in the clouds, I was really enjoying it, but because I had my head in the clouds, I left it on a train... I'm currently reading The Ghost Runner... it's good. amazon.co.uk/Ghost-Runner-T...
Born to Run is amazing ...it makes me want to head off to the hills, and run and run and run
Looking forward to reading your book about running for over 65's Floss, any idea when it will be published.?
Is this really happening? Would love to hear more about this.
End of the year I hope !
Could be a nice Christmas 🤶 🎄 present for some runners.
I enjoyed Born to Run. The author does a Ted Talk as well if anyone wants the gist of it.
Born to Run was good. Eat and Run by Scott Jurek was also a good read. Ultra marathonman by Dean Karnazes is also highly regarded although I have not read it yet.
Born to run...it is fantastic
Just finished Born to Run, it's amazing. Currently reading What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. I love Murakami and I had no idea he's a runner as well as a writer! It's well worth a read but I wish it was longer, I don't want it to end! I haven't read any of the others yet but I have got Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ready to take on holiday with me. I also really enjoyed reading Running Like a Girl, funny and entertaining but also very informative and useful.
There have been so many good comments about Born to Run and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running that I am going to have to buy them both.
Edit: just ordered the latter on eBay.
You can have my Born to Run book... It's got a lot of coffee stains on it, jam, wine, beans, maybe just buy a new one.
Lovely book by murakami
I really enjoyed running like a girl...going to look at born to run now on these recommendations....thanks vrbs.
I’m currently about a third of the way through Born to Run. It has inspired me to put Chia seeds on my shopping list and make Iskiate for my next long run 😁 I’ve also investigated the undulating canyons of the Sierra del Madre and the mountains of Colorado on Google Earth. I’ve also read the Wikipedia bios of most of the runners so far and I want to be Ann Trason! If I wasn’t on holiday I’d still be reading it in a year’s time as it keeps distracting me to investigate other things.
This book is the main reason why I haven’t written a Parkrun report today yet!!
So yes, I recommend it but don’t expect to do much else whilst your reading it!
Great post Stephen UK, I’ve heard of a couple from that list but I’ve brought a couple books not on that list.
Running: Cheaper than Therapy
Parkrun: not just a run in the park
Paula Radcliffe - how to run
Thanks, JaoJao. I never knew there was a Parkrun book. What’s it like?
I haven’t started reading it in earnest, i just finished the first book which was hilarious! You can download a sample of the Parkrun book on kindle and get a feel for it. The first couple sections talks about the history of it, which is fine but I am more interested in later sections that are relevant to my Parkrun experience. It’s priced at £10.00. I think some of the proceeds must go to Parkrun so I don’t mind.
I loved the Murakami (What I talk About When I Talk About Running)! Other favourites include the two books by Alexander Vassos, and Just a Little Run Around the World by Rosie Swale Pope - an amazing tale! Born to Run was very interesting. 😁👍
I also like Running Kind by Christine Stovell. The writer is about sixty now and a regular half marathon runner. It's the story of how she took up running in her thirties when her first marriage broke up and how she continued. Really interesting and quite inspiring.
I have got Feet in the Clouds on Kindle following recommendations wlsewherr but not read it yet. I've read Running with the Kenyans though, Scott Jurek's book on running the Appalachian trail (North) and There is no map in hell by Steve Birkinshaw (on running the Wainwrights). My choice has been influenced by my interest in mountain exploits!
I love Murakami’s what I talk about when I talk about running. I read it years and years ago when it first came out and I was first inspired to run and then for various reasons... didn’t. Re-read it recently and understand it much better now that I do run!
I am currently reading the historian Ian Mortimer’s Why Running Matters and enjoying it so far.
I’d like to read more by women so will be looking up some of the suggestions above, thanks!
I also just read Bryony Gordon’s Eat, Drink , Run. It is much more about mental health and meeting prince harry than about running (although she does do the London marathon at the end) and is very much in her style. If you like her columns/other books then go for it, if not then it might take some getting used to!
There’s a tiny kindle read for 99p “No Run Intendedl. It’s a women’s book i’d Say but it’s funny 😁. Hannah Phillips
It’s about the author’s very first steps into running 😁
I loved Askwith’s Feet in the Clouds, especially when he talks about running downhill. Some of the really fast fell runners are so good at it that they are described as practically flying! Aaaand if running up or down mountains is your thing then Robert Macfarlane’s Mountains of the Mind is a fascinating account of mountaineering history, with Simon Ingram’s Between the Sunset and the Sea giving a very readable account of sixteen British mountains. Sorrry got carried away from the topic a bit, lol! Case of those who can’t do, read!!
Jog On: How Running Saved My Life by Bella Mackie was brilliant. Great book about the benefits of running on mental health.