A humorous yet sensible guide filled with motivating and surprising advice, along with illuminating charts and graphs for runners who have a love/hate relationship with the sport.
Brendan Leonard hates running. He hates it so much that he once logged fifty-two marathon-length runs in fifty-two weeks. Now hes sharing everything hes learned about the sport so that you can hate it too.
Packed with wisdom, humor, attitude, tips, and quotesand more than sixty illuminating chartsI Hate Running and You Can Toodelivers a powerful message of motivation from a truly relatable mentor.
Leonard nails the love-hate relationship most runners have with the sport. He knows the difficulty of getting off the couch, teaches us to get comfortable with being uncomfortable, embraces the mix of running with walking. And he shares all that hes learnedcelebrating the mantra of Easy, light, smooth, and fast, observing that any body that runs is a runners body.
Plus Leonard knows all the practical stuff, from training methods to advice for when you hit a setback or get injured. Even the answer to that big question a lot of runners occasionally ask: Why? Easy: Running helps us understand commitment, develop patience, discover self-discipline, find mental toughness, and prove to ourselves that we can do something demanding. And, of course, burn off that extra serving of nachos.
Brendan Leonardhas completed more than a dozen organized ultramarathons and marathons, including three of the most difficult 100-mile trail races in America. In 2019, he set out to complete 52 marathon-distance runs in 52 weeks, and survived, while having fun part of the time. Leonard is a columnist atOutside, and his writing has appeared inRunner’s World,National Geographic Adventure,Climbing, andAlpinistand on CNN.com and in dozens of other publications. He directed the 2017 short filmHow to Run 100 Miles, whl3)
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