Running, Eating, Thinking: A Vegan Anthology

by Martin Rowe

Overview

In recent years, endurance athletes, bodybuilders, and long-distance runners such as Ruth Heidrich, Scott Jurek, Rich Roll, Brendan Brazier, Robert Cheeke, and many others have destroyed the notion that you cannot be a top-flight competitor on a plant-based diet and upended the stereotype that veganism means weakness, placidity, and passivity. But are there deeper connections between veganism and running, for example, that reach beyond attaining peak performance to other aspects of being vegan: such as living lightly on the land, caring for other-than-human life, and connecting to our animal bodies? The fifteen writers in Running, Eating, Thinking wager that there are, and they explore in manifold ways how those connections might be made. From coping with cancer to reflecting on the need of the confined animal to run free, from Buddhist ideas of nonviolence to harnessing the breath for singing and running, and from extolling the glories of lentils to committing oneself to the long run in animal activism, Running, Eating, Thinking is a pioneering anthology that may redefine your thinking about veganism and running.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590564257
Publisher:	Lantern Books NY
Publication date:	05/06/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	728 KB

About the Author

Martin Rowe is the co-founder of Lantern Publishing & Media. He is the author of several books, and is co-author of Right off the Bat: Baseball, Cricket, Literature, & Life.

Table of Contents

Foreword Paul Shapiro vii

Introduction Martin Rowe 1

Running

1 A Marathon, Not a Sprint Gene Baur 37

2 Running Is Compassion Colleen Patrick-Goudreau 46

3 The High Life James McWilliams 59

4 Beating Destiny Ellen Jaffe Jones 69

5 Running, Singing, and Being Vegan Lisette Oropesa 77

Eating

6 I Run with Every Day in Me Cassandra Greenwald 91

7 Fit Fathers, Devoted Dads Kimatni Rawlins 104

8 A Well-Rounded Vegan JL Fields 112

9 A Magic and Peaceable Kingdom Gordon Harvey 118

10 For the Love of Lentils Christine Frietchen 125

Thinking

11 Ruminations of a Vegan Non-Runner (Who Runs) Jasmin Singer 137

12 Three Days Scott Spitz 149

13 Striving for Peace in Every Step Catherine Berlot 163

14 What It Means to Be a Runner Matt Frazier 174

15 A Body in the Park Martin Rowe 178

Acknowledgments 189

Bibliography and Resources 191

About the Contributors 197

About the Publisher 203