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Study to Prepare for the Dumb but Hopefully Fun Thing

Trail Running From Start to Finish; Runner's World Complete Guide to Trail Running; The Ultimate Guide to Trail Running by Graeme HIlditch; Dagney Scott Barrios; Adam W Chase and Nancy Hobbs

February 11, 2024 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

So I might have done something a little dumb and signed up for a mountain trail run somewhere I’ll be in about 6 months for work; why might this be dumb? Because I don’t live near mountains or significant trails to train on. Also, I don’t actually do much trail running; I’m more of a road/sidewalk runner. The 25k distance doesn’t bother me, but the first few miles going about 1,000 feet almost straight up? That makes me nervous. So what do I do? Get […]

Why I Run

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

August 29, 2023 by ASKReviews Leave a Comment

Best for: Runners looking for a meditation on running. In a nutshell: Author Murakami, better known by most for his novels, shares how running impacts his life. Worth quoting: “People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they’ll go to any length to live longer. But I don’t think that’s the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.” “I’m often asked what I think about as […]

Running Writer Contemplates Stuff

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

July 13, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 2: Asia & Oceania I’ve read a few of Haruki Murakami’s novels (in translation; I don’t read Japanese); I enjoyed them but they’re definitely something you need to be in the right mood for. His non-fiction What I Talk About When I Talk About Running sounds exactly like the kind of guy who would write some of those stories, at least style-wise. Murakami is a long-time distance runner as the title suggests, and basically he’s turned bits of his running journal into a nine […]

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

Running Like a Girl by Alexandra Heminsley

July 2, 2023 by ASKReviews Leave a Comment

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 […]

Batman the B!tch and other Running Stories and Rules

Born to Run 2: The Ultimate Training Guide by Christopher McDugall, Eric Orton

March 4, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I got Born to Run 2 on sale on a whim and I’m glad I didn’t pay full price. This book gets judgey and inflexible; it does have some good looking recommendations for individual activities for training, and recipes for long run pre/post/mid run nutrition. The book is a running guide book and it’s set up to follow a core group of people who run and their journeys to find a way to do so that works (naturally it’s the trainers who wrote/inspired the book’s). […]

Irony for Breakfast after Your Run

Rise & Run: Recipes, Rituals, and Runs to Fuel Your Day by Shalane Flanagan, Elyse Kopecky

October 16, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 21: Rec’d I run and so a good bit of my social media connections relate to that; about a month ago, a gal on my local women’s running group posted that her favorite cookbook series was on Kindle sale; a handful of the other ladies voiced their support/intent to purchase this title. I’d heard of it before, so I figured, why not? I have to admit, I hadn’t quite made the connection that Rise and Run: Recipes, Rituals, and Runs to Fuel Your Day […]

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