Category: The Endurance Bibliography
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Review: Jornet’s Run of Die
Run or Die Kilian Jornet This memoir, written while he was still a very young man, is the story of the world’s greatest mountain runner. Jornet is the perfect storm of mountain athlete. Slight of stature, he was born at altitude, to parents who routinely went on epic adventures with him and his sister. As…
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Review: Fitzgerald’s 80/20 Running
80/20 Running: Matt Ftizgerald Fitzgerald is an ace at taking a basic idea about endurance sports and turning it into a useful, if a bit padded book. Racing weight is about, well, weight and racing, and 80/20 is about the very popular (some would say ubiquitous) running methodology of running eight percent of your miles…
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Review: Wellington’s A Life Without Limits
A Life Without Limits: A World Champion’s Journey Chrissie Wellington Chrissie Wellington is one of the most successful triathletes of all time. But she’s more than that. She’s an activist for environmental issues, a legit player in the world of international development, and a survivor of a serious eating disorder and more. She covers all…
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Review: Armstrong’s Its Not About The Bike
Its Not About The Bike Lance Armstrong Even here, in a book that is supposed to be the inspiring, heart-felt version of Armstrong, the story of overcoming every obstacle (the poverty, the cancer, the doubters); the story of the charitable work, and the small town kid made good, even here, you can tell he’s a…
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Review: Coyle’s Lance Armstrong’s War
Ed note: This review was originally written for a now long dead livejournal. Lance Armstrong’s War: One Man’s Battle Against Fate, Fame, Love, Death, Scandal, and a Few Other Rivals on the Road to the Tour de France Daniel Coyle This is without a doubt the best book written about Lance Armstrong before his fall…
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Review: Stewart’s The Places in Between
The Places In Between Rory Stewart In theory, it is easy to hate an Eton educated upper class Scotsman who decides it’d be a lark to walk across Afghanistan six months after the fall of the Taliban. The idea reminds me of the stupidity and adventurism I encountered in my twenties with people going to…
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Review: Alberto Salazar’s 14 Minutes
14 Minutes: A Running Legend’s Life and Death and Life I’ve been meaning to write something up about Alberto Salazar’s memoir for sometime, but now, with Salazar in the news, it seems like the right time. Salazar was the most dominant marathon runner of his time — winning New York in 1980,81 and 82 and…
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Review: Jurek’s Eat and Run
Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness Scott Jurek Its rare that I’m without a book, but it happens. Last summer, it happened when I was on vacation in Vermont. Little dude was sleeping better than expected, and I had more time to read, so low and behold, three days into a seven…
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Review: Hampton Sides’ In the Kingdom of Ice
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette In the late 19th century, we still had no fucking clue what was going on in the artic. For example, many smart people thought the North Pole had a temperate climate and was covered by an open sea. Wild life…
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Review: You Are An Ironman by Jacques Steinberg
You Are an Ironman: How Six Weekend Warriors Chased Their Dream of Finishing the World’s Toughest Tr iathlon As the subtitle suggests, You Are An Ironman traces the stories of six age groupers as they train for, and race, Ironman Arizona. Given my obsession with mortals attempting events of long distance, and the fact that…
Milo and the Calf 