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)

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Overview

With an exuberant mix of passion, insight, instruction, and humor, best-selling author—and lifelong runner—Martin Dugard takes a journey through the world of running to illustrate how the sport helps us fulfill that universal desire to be the best possible version of ourselves each and every time we lace up our shoes.

To Be a Runner represents a new way to write about running by bridging the chasm between the two categories of running books: how-to and personal narrative. Spinning colorful yarns of his running and racing adventures on six continents—from competing in the infamous Raid Gauloises to coaching his son’s high school cross-country team—Dugard considers what it means to truly integrate the activity into one’s life. For example, how the simple act of buying a new pair of running shoes can be a source of meaning and hope. As entertaining as it is provocative, To Be a Runner is about far more than running: It is about life, and how we should live it.

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Best-selling author Dugard (Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone) recalls the impact running cross-country has had on him in his latest book. A runner from an early age, he recounts the lessons learned after returning to the sport in his twenties and while coaching a high school cross-country team. With vivid imagery, he tells of his trials at the various events in which he has participated, including: the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain; the Tough Guy in Great Britain; and the Saipan XTERRA off-road triathlon in the Marianas Islands. Even as blood ran down his legs during a Disneyland marathon or as he plunged into icy water during the Tough Guy, his sense of humor shines through. In addition, he provides readers with various training tips: how to choose the proper running shoes, the proper technique for hill climbing, how to stretch, and when to rest. This book will inspire non-athletes, while former runners may find themselves lacing up their running shoes after reading just a few chapters. (May)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781609611088
  • Publisher: Rodale Press, Inc.
  • Publication date: 5/10/2011
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 102,097
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

MARTIN DUGARD has been a leading authority and writer on running and endurance sports for more than 20 years. His work has appeared extensively in Runner’s World, Outside, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and GQ. His books include the New York Times bestsellers The Last Voyage of Columbus and Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone. This is his seventh book.

Table of Contents

Prologue Reason to Believe xi

First Steps

First Steps 3

Base Miles 9

Excuses, Excuses 17

A Time for Stretching 23

Just Once … 29

Easing into It

Slow Going 39

New Shoes 43

Smooth 49

Keep It Up 55

Wild Things

Fore! 63

The Wild Place 71

Hills 79

Perseverance

Ice Baths 89

Thunder Thighs 95

Run Dates 101

Deep Thoughts 107

Middle Distance

Pamplona (Part I) 115

Pamplona (Part II) 123

House of Pain (Part I) 131

Digging Deep

House of Pain (Part II) 139

Pamplona (Part III) 143

The Good Fight 149

Saipan 155

Bell Lap

Weather or Not 165

Tough Guy 171

A Breather 181

Homestretch

Bruised and Battered 191

Time and Again 197

The Mecca 203

Endorphin Rush

The Price You Pay 213

The Beer Truck 219

Superheroes 225

Epilogue: Time to Race 231

Acknowledgments 237

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  • Posted June 9, 2011

    Great for a niche audience

    If you're a runner, endurance athlete, cross country coach or want to be any of the above, you'll enjoy this book - its more a series of essays than anything else. Good quick read and pretty motivational.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 1, 2012

    Really great book for novice and above.

    Motivating and educational as well. Like his conversational writing style. Will go back to this book again for practical advice.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 10, 2011

    Good read

    This book is very entertaining but also a great way to see what running really can add to a life. I was looking for a more motivational book to get me back into running, and although I didn't get that from this book, I did enjoy the full circle moment of M. Dugard on how running has changed his life. Very funny at times, but probably only to those who actually run quite a bit and can relate to those situations! Worth the read!

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