Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running

ISBN-13: 9780803234260 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 184 str.

Rachel Toor

Opis

Rachel Toor was a bookish egghead who ran only to catch a bus. How such an unlikely athlete became a runner of ultramarathons is the story of Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, and the watch are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.A chronicle of Toor s relationship with the sport of running, from her early incarnation as an Oreo-eating couch potato to her emergence as a hard-bodied marathoner, this book explores the sport of running, the community it brings into being, and the personal satisfaction of pursuing it to its limit. An homage to running, a literary take on how an activity can turn into a passion and how a passion can become a way of life, Toor s book runs all the way from individual achievement a personal record to the world of friendship and community.
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