Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I Hate It and I Love It (Running, Not the Book)

Running Like a Girl by Alexandra Heminsley

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Best for: Women interested in distance running. In a nutshell: Author Heminsley shares her journey to becoming a long distance runner, and what she’s learned along the way. Worth quoting: “After a while though I began to realise that no one was really watching.” Why I chose it: I’ve been running half marathons for about 14 years now, but this year I decided to get a running coach to see if I can improve my time. Then I saw this book and decided why not […]

Probably a less than 10% chance I’ll take up running after this

Running Like a Girl: Notes on Learning to Run by Alexandra Heminsley

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This is an older book published in 2014.  I live on a small Caribbean island and spend a lot of time in airports travelling to just about anywhere.  On one such trip, I was hanging out waiting for my mid morning flight home and I realised that as the flight should be boarding that I was not only at the wrong gate but also in the wrong terminal.  I was then faced with trying to make it from terminal D to B as quickly as […]

#CBR10Bingo: Not My Wheelhouse – Running Like a Girl (Bingo #2)

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#CBR10Bingo: Not My Wheelhouse (the book is a) non-fiction and b) about running – neither of these things are in my usual wheelhouse) I was at a bit of a loss as to which genre or book to choose for the “Not My Wheelhouse” square on the CBR10 Bingo card, because while I primarily read romance, paranormal fantasy and YA (especially at the moment), I do try to branch out into other fiction genres every so often, and while I don’t read them as often any […]



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