I enjoyed this. A lot of the specific advice from her project wouldn’t necessarily apply to me or lots of other people, but it’s useful to see this as one possible recipe.
I camped 42 nights in 2019, which was fewer than normal (65 in 2018, 51 in 2017, 43 in 2016), but the locations were definitely more spread out.
Great book. I read it last year, but I decided to read it again with The Boy when he chose this for his school book report. Dean sometimes takes shit from other ultra runners for self promotion, but we think he’s terrific. There’s a lot to like here.
I ran for 24 hours with a new personal best of 117.35 miles. It was a rough night, but in the morning I got to ring the bell when I surpassed my previous best of 112.33.
Melissa reached 101 miles and rang the bell for a new distance personal record. Will has covered 33 miles and only has 9 more miles to meet his goal.
Will has started his 24 hour run at Across The Years. Melissa slept a few hours and she’s started day 2. Track them here (Mel 1623, Will 1975): https://my.raceresult.com/145502/results?lang=en#0_F5FB0C
Melissa has covered 60 miles in the first 13 hours of her Across The Years 48 hour race.
Melissa has covered 30 miles in the first 6 hours of her Across The Years 48 hour race. It’s nice and cool out—good for running, less good for spectating.
Melissa is 2.5 hours into her 48 hour race at Across The Years. Follow her progress here (bib #1623) https://my.raceresult.com/145502/results?lang=en#0_F5FB0C
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I love this book. This was my fourth or fifth read through, which is probably more than any other book I’ve ever read.
The Boy picked this one up at a school book fair and I read it with him. It was a bit gruesome and upsetting at times, but he didn’t seem to mind reading that kind of stuff right before bed. He enjoyed it and has since picked up another similar book by the same author. I thought it was fine.
I read this one with The Boy as he was reading it in school. I didn’t love it, but it did have some good parts.
I didn’t get much from this one. Admittedly, I’m not the target audience of women with low self esteem, but this was heavy on anecdotes and light on science. Very life-coachy. Maybe it would have seemed better if I hadn’t just finished the amazing Lost Connections book.
Excellent book. So much new (to me) information in this book. Full of well cited scientific research. Audiobook read by the author was very moving at times.
Good, but not as good as Born to Run. The style of this book was nearly identical to Born to Run, though I found it much more difficult to follow the story this time. I did enjoy the story of Greek resistance fighters during World War II, it just didn’t seem very coherent.
Second time through. Great book. Great movie. I’m not sure which one I like more.
Great book. Third time through. Inspiration for my 100 mile race in Kansas.
I read this with The Boy for a school book report. The writing style was interesting, and rather accessible for younger readers. The story was pretty good, though it did hit pretty close to home after our search and rescue adventure last summer.
Hardcover from public library.
Where do I begin with this one? The “lifestyle design” and travel parts of the book are actually pretty good. There’s a lot of interesting advice, and much of it is even somewhat useful. The business advice, though, is a mess. Most of it seems pretty sketchy (this guy comes from the infomercial world). If you have to follow up a piece of business advise with the disclaimer, “THIS IS LEGAL!”, then you may want to reconsider your life choices.
Audiobook from Apple Books.
Yes, I read this twice in one week. This time I read it with The Boy and he seemed to enjoy it as much as I did. My wife was around for parts of it and laughed out loud several times.
Audiobook from Apple Books.
Winter came a day before autumn.
I have strong feelings about this book, both good and bad. The very loud orchestral music playing in the background through much of the audiobook didn’t do it any favors. Still, the author has some interesting ideas and I am probably going to read this one again. Very short.
Audiobook from Apple Books.
