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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 241,012 ratings — published 2009
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 220,389 ratings — published 2007
Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 40,039 ratings — published 2012
Once a Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 16,915 ratings — published 1978
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 21,667 ratings — published 2005
Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 28,090 ratings — published 2012
North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 17,535 ratings — published 2018
Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 13,301 ratings — published
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.11 — 21,507 ratings — published 2018
Running Like a Girl (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 9,331 ratings — published 2013
Choosing to Run: A Memoir (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 13,409 ratings — published 2023
Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 10,789 ratings — published 2010
Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 10,275 ratings — published 2013
Daniels' Running Formula (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 5,314 ratings — published 1998
The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 9,003 ratings — published 2019
How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 7,214 ratings — published 2015
My Life on the Run: The Wit, Wisdom, and Insights of a Road Racing Icon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 2,828 ratings — published 2008
The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 15,643 ratings — published 2023
Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 2,238 ratings — published
The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 10,564 ratings — published 2004
Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,668 ratings — published 2011
ChiRunning: A Revolutionary Approach to Effortless, Injury-Free Running (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 7,789 ratings — published 2004
Why We Run: A Natural History (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.82 — 3,022 ratings — published 2001
Runner's World Complete Book of Women's Running: The Best Advice to Get Started, Stay Motivated, Lose Weight, Run Injury-Free, Be Safe, and Train for Any Distance (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 1,609 ratings — published 1997
Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 19,290 ratings — published 2023
A Runner’s High: My Life in Motion (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.02 — 3,380 ratings — published 2021
Science of Running: Analyze your Technique, Prevent Injury, Revolutionize your Training (The Science of Fitness)
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avg rating 4.21 — 864 ratings — published 2020
Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross-Country Team (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 6,677 ratings — published 2000
26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 5,400 ratings — published 2019
The Incomplete Book of Running (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 6,110 ratings — published 2018
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 393,609 ratings — published 2016
My Year of Running Dangerously: A Dad, a Daughter, and a Ridiculous Plan (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 4,650 ratings — published 2015
Hal Koerner's Field Guide to Ultrarunning: Training for an Ultramarathon, from 50K to 100 Miles and Beyond (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,250 ratings — published 2014
Lore of Running (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,914 ratings — published 1987
The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances (The Oatmeal, #5)
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avg rating 4.16 — 9,623 ratings — published 2014
Runner's World Run Less, Run Faster: Become a Faster, Stronger Runner with the Revolutionary FIRST Training Program (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 3,475 ratings — published 2007
80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 7,237 ratings — published 2014
The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.03 — 2,738 ratings — published
The Way of the Runner: A Journey into the Fabled World of Japanese Running (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 3,581 ratings — published 2015
The Pants of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 Kilometre Running Adventure through the Wilds of New Zealand (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.28 — 3,869 ratings — published 2017
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 337,417 ratings — published 2018
Brain Training For Runners: A Revolutionary New Training System to Improve Endurance, Speed, Health, and Results (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 841 ratings — published 2007
The Road to Sparta : Retracing the Ancient Battle and Epic Run That Inspired the World's Greatest Foot Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,565 ratings — published 2013
Run or Die (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.60 — 4,674 ratings — published 2011
Run Fast. Eat Slow. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 3,050 ratings — published 2016
Advanced Marathoning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 2,725 ratings — published
Anatomy for Runners: Unlocking Your Athletic Potential for Health, Speed, and Injury Prevention (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,726 ratings — published
A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 7,047 ratings — published 2012
“And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because I never really know, I still can't tell the difference, I'm never quite certain whether or not I'm actually alive. I sit here every single day. Run, I said to myself. Run until your lungs collapse, until the wind whips and snaps at your tattered clothes, until you're a blur that blends into the background.
Run, Juliette, run faster, run until your bones break and your shins split and your muscles atrophy and your heart dies because it was always too big for your chest and it beat too fast for too long and you run.
Run run run until you can't hear their feet behind you. Run until they drop their fists and their shouts dissolve in the air. Run with your eyes open and your mouth shut and dam the river rushing up behind your eyes. Run, Juliette.
Run until you drop dead. Make sure your heart stops before they ever reach you. Before they ever touch you.
Run, I said.”
― Unravel Me
Run, Juliette, run faster, run until your bones break and your shins split and your muscles atrophy and your heart dies because it was always too big for your chest and it beat too fast for too long and you run.
Run run run until you can't hear their feet behind you. Run until they drop their fists and their shouts dissolve in the air. Run with your eyes open and your mouth shut and dam the river rushing up behind your eyes. Run, Juliette.
Run until you drop dead. Make sure your heart stops before they ever reach you. Before they ever touch you.
Run, I said.”
― Unravel Me
“It was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest, splashing color everywhere.
Red. Red. Red.
Dozens of them: black feathers coated thickly with crimson-colored paint, fluttering among the branches.
Red means run.”
― Pandemonium
Red. Red. Red.
Dozens of them: black feathers coated thickly with crimson-colored paint, fluttering among the branches.
Red means run.”
― Pandemonium
