Personal Record
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-6033-7 (ISBN)
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Rachel Toor was a bookish egghead who ran only to catch a bus. How such an unlikely athlete became a runner of ultramarathons is the story of Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner’s life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
A chronicle of Toor’s relationship with the sport of running, from her early incarnation as an Oreo-eating couch potato to her emergence as a hard-bodied marathoner, this book explores the sport of running, the community it brings into being, and the personal satisfaction of pursuing it to its limit. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. An homage to running, a literary take on how an activity can turn into a passion, and how a passion can become a way of life, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.
Rachel Toor teaches writing at Eastern Washington University, is a columnist for the Chronicle of Higher Education, and a senior writer for Running Times. She is the author of The Pig and I: How I Learned to Love Men (Almost) as Much as I Love My Pets and Admissions Confidential: An Insider’s Account of the Elite College Selection Process. A graduate of Yale University, she received an MFA from the University of Montana and currently lives in Spokane.
Toeing the Line1. The Body2. Reasons Not to Run3. The Routes4. One Runner's Beginnings5. The Closet6. The Coach7. The Magazine Rack8. Ride and Ties9. Weekend Mornings10. The First Marathon11. Speed Goggles12. The Fast Young Man13. Boston14. Becoming a Marathoner15. Racing16. The Western State17. Injuries18. Ultras19. The Watch20. The Coach21. The Fuel22. On the Road23. The Hospital24. Pacing25. The Break Up26. The Curtain Rod0.2 Getting to the Finish
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 363 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Leichtathletik / Turnen | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8032-6033-4 / 0803260334 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8032-6033-7 / 9780803260337 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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