false<![CDATA[Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256088722m/3309597.jpg33095971<DIV>Rachel Toor was a bookish egghead who ran only to catch a bus. How such an unlikely athlete became a runner of ultramarathons is the story of <I>Personal Record</I>, 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.<BR> </DIV><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> (01/09/2008)33468131102008Personal Record: A Love Affair with Runningtotal:31|5:6|4:9|3:12|2:4|1:0|31110581002falsefalseFri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009Mon Jun 08 04:20:38 -0700 2009Fri 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...]]>
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I have given this as a memorial book to 2 libraries in memory of Jean Fultz.]]>
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