Running


Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
Once a Runner
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory
Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth
Daniels' Running Formula
80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower
The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance
The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It
Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross-Country Team
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan SillitoeThe Running Dream by Wendelin Van DraanenKeeping Pace by Laurie MorrisonWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki MurakamiFreerunner by David Trifunov
Running Fiction
15 books — 7 voters
Kulti by Mariana ZapataCatching Jordan by Miranda KenneallyPlay With Me by Piper ShellyBlitzball by Barton LudwigScoring Wilder by R.S. Grey
Athlete Girl Novels
124 books — 252 voters

Bhutan Travelog Edition 2 by Ashley ChenBhutan Travelog by Ashley ChenJust a Little Run Around the World by Rosie Swale PopeBorn to Run by Christopher McDougallThe Pants of Perspective by Anna McNuff
Armchair Travel: Running Adventures
17 books — 5 voters
The Why of The Barkley by Rich Barkley Scritch LimacherTales From Out There by Frozen Ed FurtawThe Finishers by Alexis BergLa Résolution by Aurélien SanchezBarkley Marathons Finisher by Matthew Tommasi
The Barkley Marathons
9 books — 2 voters

Born to Run by Christopher McDougallIt's Not About the Bike by Lance ArmstrongJourney Through Britain by John HillabyBlack Sunrise by Christina EngelaBelieve, Live, Run by Bertalan Thuroczy
Walking and Running
29 books — 9 voters
Born to Run by Christopher McDougallWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki MurakamiOnce a Runner by John L. Parker Jr.Eat & Run by Scott JurekNight Running by Emily Mitchell
Best Running (non-instructional) Books
237 books — 583 voters

Christopher McDougall
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A ...more
Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Criss Jami
You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.
Criss Jami, Killosophy

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