Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running

By Rachel Toor

Book Overview

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, 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 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. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803234260
• ISBN13: 9780803234260
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.6"