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Zen And The Art Of Running: The Path To Making Peace With Your Pace (2009)

by Larry Shapiro(Favorite Author)
3.31 of 5 Votes: 1
ISBN
1598699601 (ISBN13: 9781598699609)
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English
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Adams Media Corporation
review 1: 6am in the fall, in New England, is dark, and cold. I get out of my warm bed, just a couple stretches and some juice, and out the door quickly... I keep my mind focused on the *feeling* - ignore the cold, ignore the rain, the traffic, just feel... My feet know the route, I can run it in the dark... my feet know every dip in the sidewalk, every curb, where the tree roots cross my path. When I hit mile 2 the sky begins to turn rose coloured and all I feel is peace, and I'm happy to be out and, yep, happy to have another 2-3 miles to go. I hear my feet, I hear the cars and the birds. It's a meditation in motion. So Larry didn't get to this feeling until chapter 5, I think, and that's what I was looking for - how to go even more deeply into this feeling. I would have put the b... moreook down, except it's an easy read and a small book. If you don't have this feeling already and would like it - read the book. If you do, and you want to share with someone else - share the book. If you already feel this, just smile and high five me on the road.
review 2: Meh. Got it as a Nook deal of the day thing, so I think I paid 99c for it. It was worth about that.It seemed mostly a collection of obvious statements. I guess if you've truly never thought about Buddhism/zen/meditation/whatever concepts before *and* you've never thought about running before, you could get things out of this book, but...then why are you picking up the book? I'm not even a practitioner of Buddhism; I've just read enough to read this and go "yep, yep, yup, okay, yup, skimming now." That said, it's also slightly unfair of me as a lot of these concerns just don't apply. I could pretty much skim the entire chapter on using these concepts to make running while having a family or while aging easier, since neither apply. Maybe someday I'll go "hey, he was right!" and rewrite this review. :) less
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JOlyn669
Not a great book, but got me to run a couple times I wouldn't so worth the read.
Read
Decent book. A quick read. Applicable for beginners and seasoned runners.
mais
Maybe the most useless thing I've ever read.
Rae
one step closer to not hating running
zrxchic
Not terribly useful to me.
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