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)

Martin Dugard

ISBN 10: 160961108X / ISBN 13: 9781609611088

Published by Rodale Books, Inc., New York, 2011

About this Item

238 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Pen markings on first free front-end page.

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Bibliographic Details

• 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)
• Publisher: Rodale Books, Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 160961108X
• ISBN 13: 9781609611088
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Chris Rhoads (Jacket Design); Stephen Toner (Jacket Image); Kim Lindholm (Author Photo); Christopher Rhoads (Design)
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research
  • Meditation, Spirituality, Inspiration

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

New York Times bestselling author and lifelong runner Martin Dugard has written about running and endurance sports for more than twenty years, and run on six continents. His books include Chasing Lance and Into Africa. His writing has appeared in Runner's World, Sports Illustrated, Esquire and many other magazines. He lives in Orange County, California.