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To Be A Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running With The Bulls, Or Just Taking On A 5-K Makes You A Better Person (and The World A Better Place) (2011)

by Martin Dugard(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

160961108X (ISBN13: 9781609611088)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Rodale Books

review 1: Recommended to me by my boss (and fellow runner), Dugard's book is a collection of essays on how running makes him push to be the best version of himself. Ostensibly a "running book," it's really more than that. Dugard is a writer and a dad and a runner, just trying to figure out life. Running is his metaphor for pushing past limits and obstacles; he needs the visual metaphor ... and being the same kind of runner, I know just what he means.
review 2: Meh. I sort of enjoyed the first couple chapters of this book, but only sort of. The stories are fine, but not particularly unique or unusually interesting. The tone is a bit too "inspirational poster" for me. Lots of positivity and thinly veiled life advice, and no particular reason that advice from the author ... moreis any more worthy than advice from, say, the guy who drove me home from the airport. The fact that the author has been a runner and a coach for a long time is his only particular credential and that's just not a big enough selling point for me. It was good enough to hold my attention if I was, say, stuck at a relative's house and had some time to kill. Past that, though, there wasn't enough here to keep me reading. less

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