The Long Run : A Memoir of Loss and Life in Motion (Hardcover)

from keafrost

Such an amazing book so far. I'm not completely finished with it, but I had to give it an early review. The amount of research this author has done is impressive. (After finishing the book) The long run was is a well researched, semi-memoir history of running that focuses on women runners. Menzie...

from mryan40

Having been a runner for more than 30 years, I have read my share of books about running. What is different about this book is that it can't be pigeonholed into a specific category. The author touches on a variety of topics, including overcoming grief, preparing for and running a marathon, the de...

from LissaJ

The author of this running memoir experienced the tragic loss of both of her parents in a plane wreck when she was only twenty. She then spent the next decade traveling around in a fugue of grief and loss. Her decision to begin training for half-marathons and marathons was not logical, she was ne...

from oldblack

I found this to be a great book and I am grateful to my daughter who lent it to me. It has a really good balance of the personal memoir of a thoughtful person and a didactic feminist sociological perspective of the history of the oppression of women as athletes. The story is inspiring in many way...

from whitreidtan

Have you ever driven down the street when it's raining or snowing or it's blistering hot and you see someone out running? Unless you are a runner yourself, you probably write that person off as completely crazy. You might even write off as crazy a runner out on a perfectly temperate day if you ar...