Women Who Run

By Shanti Sosienski

Book Overview

Women run for all kinds of reasons. We run for health, to ease tension, for strength, to challenge ourselves, to be social with friends, as professional athletes or the dream of being one, to turn our minds on, and to turn them off. Whether running a marathon, taking a quick jog around the neighborhood, or trying to reach the top of Pikes Peak, women of all ages and abilities have discovered running. In Women Who Run a wide range of women, including Olympians, marathoners, ultra runners, young track phenoms, and recreational runners, talk about why they run, what drives them, and what continues to spark their interest in the sport.

Women Who Run features Bobbi Gibb, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon; Louise Cooper, breast cancer survivor and finisher of the grueling 135-mile Badwater Marathon; Kristin Armstrong, who found solace and camaraderie in running with other women post-divorce; Olympic runner and two-time LA Marathon winner and Kenyan Lornah Kiplagat, Wall Street Journal reporter and Muslim women's activist, Asra Nomani; Pam Reed who ran 300-miles in one run--and many more.

This book will inspire and motivate you to get off the couch and find your inner runner.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B004HEXSYU
• ISBN13: 9781580051835
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Motivating book

This is a great book that I'd recommend to anyone, not just women. I had trouble putting it down and have since gone online to read more about some of the strong, wonderful women featured in this book.

Women Who Run

What a great, lively read, especially as we enter the summer months and want to spend more time exercising outside! I found Shanti's book to be engaging, informative and inspiring. I gave up running a couple of years ago, and this book has reminded me why I should take it up again.

Older Men Who Walk

I'm not a woman and I don't run. I'm 64 and recovering from a recent cancer procedure. This extremely well-written and thoroughly engaging book has inspired my wife and me to double our walking effort. Not to mention how much fun it was to read.

If this won't get you off the couch, nothing will!

This collection of profiles is inspirational enough to get even the laziest of couch potatoes off their butts and out on the running trails. I loved the range of runners profiled, from hardcore ultramarathoners to everyday women balancing career and family. Women Who Run has a little something for everyone. I dare you to read a chapter and not want to throw on your sneakers and go for a run afterward!

It's about time!

It's about time someone wrote a book that focused exclusively on women runners. Their stories aren't just about running, but about what is possible with determination, drive, focus, and commitment. Sit long enough to read this book because after reading it nothing will stop you from wanting to go out for a run.