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Running Like A Girl (2013)

by Alexandra Heminsley(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0091944368 (ISBN13: 9780091944360)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Hutchinson

review 1: I wish she went it how she went from a walker to a runner. One moment she was a person that walked to get thru depression and then she decided to start running. Although she described feeling like she was dying on her first run, she was just a runner after that point. It was amusing enough. Her dad sounds interesting, I would have liked to heard more about him.Also, I would like to meet that woman from El Salvador that she met up with during the Nike Women's Marathon. I need that woman in my life. :)
review 2: Can't complain about the title. But if I say that I dislike the term 'girl' applied to females above, say, 25, that it tends to bode ill, you'll know that I was probably not going to be wowed by the book (although I was ready to be). I felt as though I'd ... morealready read this book twice this year, although last time it was sailing and the time before that it was cod spirituality (I think?) and I could have lived happily without reading any of them. I found being dragged up, down and around the mood cycles and ephemeral epiphanies of a 30 something female journalist as wearisome as ever. (Still at least none of them were having babies and writing enraging books about it)Whilst Heminsley's Running Like a Girl and my running like me are poles apart, it was definitely an OK book rather than one I didn't enjoy at all. The accounts of the support within a long distance race were reasonably moving, and I'd known little about the history of women gaining access to events previously. The back section which was less memoir and more tips deserved a lot more work (references!) but contained worthwhile bits and bobs for one who has little appetite for reading lots of books, magazines or internet devoted to running or fitness. I found her attitude to running gait refreshing, she banged on surprisingly little about shopping for running clothes given her profession, and think she has a point about leaving your issues with the colour pink at the running shoe shop door to save yourself from insanity. less

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