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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 ultra-marathons 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, and the 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 a crisp-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. 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, Toor's book runs all the way from individual achievement---a personal record---to the world of friendship and community.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: sport

• Full title: Personal Record
• Subtitle: A Love Affair with Running
• Author: Rachel Toor
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184
• EAN: 9780803234260
• ISBN: 0803234260
• ID: 04923068
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Weight: 226 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 141 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 2010

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