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             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 3309597 1 3346813 1 10 2008 Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running total:34|5:6|4:11|3:13|2:4|1:0| 34 121 62 10 17545 3.63 87 22 58835257 305802 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 0 2 false Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 04:20:38 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 14:07:04 -0700 2009 Personal Record reads more like an essay collection than a unified book and, as such, it's uneven. Some of the pieces felt like inconsequential filler, and others made me cringe a bit (the spectre of a forty-something woman writing about flirtations/relationships with a teenage sensibility). But som...more...]]> 41785868 1264294 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 3 0 false Sun May 24 21:09:21 -0700 2009 Sat Jan 03 19:26:40 -0800 2009 Sun May 24 21:09:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 41880929 1007512 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 4 0 false Sun Jan 04 15:31:48 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 15:32:44 -0800 2009 54237048 808884 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 3 1 false Tue Apr 28 08:53:41 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 08:54:39 -0700 2009 67245440 246666 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 4 0 false Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 09:56:13 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 09:59:04 -0700 2009 I have given this as a memorial book to 2 libraries in memory of Jean Fultz.]]> 41349418 587415 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 2 1 false Tue Dec 30 18:22:06 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 18:25:34 -0800 2008 47333083 2066046 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 5 0 false Mon Feb 23 20:21:24 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 20:22:20 -0800 2009 36550462 721226 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 4 0 false Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 30 08:19:22 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 23 14:26:44 -0700 2009 33757920 90073 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 0 0 false Wed Sep 24 15:39:03 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 18:54:37 -0700 2008 37852490 144547 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 0 0 false Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 16 05:48:03 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 05:48:14 -0800 2008 http://www.hellasound.com/site/read/runn...]]> 81645046 671758 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 0 0 false Mon Dec 21 07:02:20 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 21 07:03:28 -0800 2009 80511390 142151 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 0 0 false Thu Dec 10 02:02:09 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 10 02:02:09 -0800 2009 79790777 2130554 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 0 0 false Thu Dec 03 14:08:11 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 03 14:08:11 -0800 2009 79170796 978931 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 4 0 false Sat Dec 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 20:57:09 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 20 07:39:50 -0800 2009 1 78058074 2952789 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 0 0 false Tue Nov 17 05:19:56 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 05:19:56 -0800 2009 77667802 2670366 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 0 0 false Fri Nov 13 12:06:06 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 12:06:06 -0800 2009 77272594 2067340 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 0 0 false Mon Nov 09 19:16:47 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 19:16:47 -0800 2009 76660038 1661078 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 5 0 false Tue Nov 03 20:59:02 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 20:59:02 -0800 2009 76468132 573249 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 3 0 false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 07:20:54 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 11:46:46 -0800 2009 1 75888515 1032652 3309597 0803260334 9780803260337 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722s/3309597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3309597.Personal_Record_A_Love_Affair_with_Running 3.56 34 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
             <DIV>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. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. 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, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.</DIV> (20080901)]]> 2008 3 0 false Sun Nov 29 05:51:41 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 27 08:49:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 08:49:00 -0700 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3309597