07come11 wrote:I'm only about a third of the way through it but "Born To Run" is fascinating.
Reads like a long magazine article, but it's a fun theory nonetheless. Made me want to run an ultra. I didn't, but I was interested for the 2 weeks I read Born To Run.
I'm not sure about running an ultra, but I am giving a serious consideration to calling myself el Caballo Blanco.
I just finished "Born To Run"...the book is enlightening...I ran two marathons last year, and I'm running a half marathon this Spring, and the Chicago marathon this October. I plan on altering my training due to reading this book. Good thing I read it now, looks like I have plenty of time to put it into action.
It is a gratuitous and interesting read -and had a placebo effect on my running for a while.
My friend is my running guru for [expletive] like this -(sub 17 min 5Ks, Boston under 3 hours, ultraruns, geocaching type races etc). I've tagged along a few times with him and friends on trail runs sw of STL. Anyway, he has some mixed feelings about McDougall, as do I. He's a bit bombastic in his claims, the anti-running shoe stuff was a bit over the top.
Again, I enjoy reading McDougall's stuff, as a novice - but you can tell he often is just spewing info that real runners like my friend have known about for decades. Or promotes some little idiosyncracy of running like its the cure. Besides the "Born to Run" -this past year he wrote a NYT article touting "the lost secret of running". and wrote another NYTimes thing called "born to be a trail runner"
Hungary Jack wrote:I feel like I have read every mountaineering / outdoor adventure book published. I need something new. Someone suggested Mein Kampf, but I was hoping for something a bit more contemporary.
A funny caveat to this book. I was reading it on the tranquil Manitou Island trip while on the windward side of the island. The book described how bad a swarm of biting black flies can be (a deer will stay in the water to nearly drowning to escape them). Mosquitos don't get me much so I'm thinking - they are just flies...how bad can they be? Anyway moved to the leeward side of the island the next day and got attacked by a swarm and it was just as bad as advertised. - dove into Lake MI and had to keep going under to get them away -then made a mad dash to a toxic motherlode of DEET and a windy spot.
Deep Survival is alright. You've probably read most of the info covered in there b/f.
07come11 wrote:I'm only about a third of the way through it but "Born To Run" is fascinating.
Reads like a long magazine article, but it's a fun theory nonetheless. Made me want to run an ultra. I didn't, but I was interested for the 2 weeks I read Born To Run.
I'm not sure about running an ultra, but I am giving a serious consideration to calling myself el Caballo Blanco.
I just finished "Born To Run"...the book is enlightening...I ran two marathons last year, and I'm running a half marathon this Spring, and the Chicago marathon this October. I plan on altering my training due to reading this book. Good thing I read it now, looks like I have plenty of time to put it into action.
It is a gratuitous and interesting read -and had a placebo effect on my running for a while.
My friend is my running guru for [expletive] like this -(sub 17 min 5Ks, Boston under 3 hours, ultraruns, geocaching type races etc). I've tagged along a few times with him and friends on trail runs sw of STL. Anyway, he has some mixed feelings about McDougall, as do I. He's a bit bombastic in his claims, the anti-running shoe stuff was a bit over the top.
Again, I enjoy reading McDougall's stuff, as a novice - but you can tell he often is just spewing info that real runners like my friend have known about for decades. Or promotes some little idiosyncracy of running like its the cure. Besides the "Born to Run" -this past year he wrote a NYT article touting "the lost secret of running". and wrote another NYTimes thing called "born to be a trail runner"
Totally understand...but it put things in perspective for me at least. It just seems to make sense, not that it's any easier. I figured most real runners understand this, but a novice like myself, can really appreciate any advice...and this makes a lot of sense to me.
I enjoy running, but I'm too focused on time/speed/etc. I just need to relax, it will all come with time. I do think I will switch from a normal cushioned running shoe to a lower profile shoe...barefooting intrigues me, though. It might be fun to try...but not right away. I think I'll have to ease into it.
I've been reading "Ramen to Riches" which I've found to be your typical baby boomer, yuppie [expletive] story about how anyone can be super rich if you just save a little of your paycheck each month. Of course the author is some sort of engineer that makes six figures. I could retire at 40 too if I made 200k a year. I think I'm going to write a financial book called "no seriously all those mother [expletive] who claim to have been poor but retired at 40 weren't ever really poor, but let me tell you what it was like growing up not knowing if you were going to eat dinner that night, then actually making something of yourself."
It's a long title I know, but it's a working title.
Never read it--I stumbled across it during a Google search for something completely unrelated, and thought that had to be the most uninteresting murder-mystery title I'd ever seen. I assume the crime is solved by Miss Marmalade.
Hopefully, there are sequels, such as "Murder at the Tea-Cozy Convention," "Snuffed by Snuff," "Blue Hair by Asphyxiation," "Revenge is a Pekoe Best Steeped for Five Minutes," and "Murder at the Heirloom Asparagus Open-Air Market."
IMADreamer wrote:I've been reading "Ramen to Riches" which I've found to be your typical baby boomer, yuppie [expletive] story about how anyone can be super rich if you just save a little of your paycheck each month. Of course the author is some sort of engineer that makes six figures. I could retire at 40 too if I made 200k a year. I think I'm going to write a financial book called "no seriously all those mother [expletive] who claim to have been poor but retired at 40 weren't ever really poor, but let me tell you what it was like growing up not knowing if you were going to eat dinner that night, then actually making something of yourself."
It's a long title I know, but it's a working title.
