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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)

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To Be a Runner

By: Martin Dugard
Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
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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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If you are a runner, were a runner or in any way at the core of your being know running is inseparable from your essence, and have see your 'best years' as behind you, then this book will reconnect you with that feeling you use to live for, that feeling after a great run. Enjoy.

Feels like a great run does

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loved it too the end. will listen to it again while training for a run.

great

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I'll probably read it again and again. he describes running in the best ways. so relatable.

loved this book read it twice

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I like listening to audiobooks while I run, so I'll search for a book about running. This was good, but not great. I love Martin Dugard's writing style so I was glad to get to know him better, and I liked his message that running helps us be the best versions of ourselves. But at the same time, he only discussed his opinion based on personal experiences. He didn't discuss goal-making, and if anything, he kind of condescended a little over goal-making because his message was just get out there and run.
I recommend this nonetheless, as a well-written book with a positive message. Just don't expect it to be your running bible.

nice to listen to while running

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For the most part I agree with him. However I found him jumping around a lot. Maybe this book could have been structured a little better, but overall a great read.

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