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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)

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)

ISBN: 160961108X

Title: 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)

Author: Martin Dugard

KDL Description:

My pick for November is: 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), written by Martin Dugard. This author, who has also written a book about Lance Armstrong, is a track and cross-country coach and writes about his many races, both the professional ones and the ones just for fun! The places he discovers, the people he meets, the kids he coaches, the animals (rattlesnakes, oh my!) he trips over – these all mesh together to form a great motivational book to read. Mr. Dugard challenges himself each day to do just a little better than he did the day before! Who knows? You may be inclined (pun intended!) to jog to the mailbox and back!
-Robin at Spencer

Amazon Description:

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. 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.