Summary of Catra Corbett's Reborn on the Run

2022-05-24T22:59:00Z Sports & Recreation

Author : Everest Media,
Release : 2022-05-24T22:59:00Z
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Synopsis Summary of Catra Corbett's Reborn on the Run by : Everest Media,

Download or read book Summary of Catra Corbett's Reborn on the Run written by Everest Media,. This book was released on 2022-05-24T22:59:00Z. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I had started running to get healthier, but instead I ended up getting healthier while running. I was already suffering from blisters, but when I finished the race, my feet were in even worse shape than before. #2 I began running, and eventually competed in, my first hundred-mile race in 1999. I had lucked into a good one for beginners. The course was flat and wide, and the twenty-mile loop wound through scraggly woods that blotted out the sun. It smelled like wood and mold. #3 The trail was overrun with sneaky tree roots that could trip you if you weren’t paying attention. The dark air constricted your breathing, and the sounds of the race seemed to turn a bit more sinister. By mile seventy-five, your feet began to sweat again, and your shoes began to fill with needles. #4 I had completed a few races by this point, and knew that ultrarunners were as much about enduring as they were about running. I was determined to finish a hundred miles, even if it meant walking the last twenty. I was so sleepy that I could have curl up and take a nap right there.

Reborn on the Run

2018-05-15 Sports & Recreation

Author : Catra Corbett
Release : 2018-05-15
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 038/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Reborn on the Run written by Catra Corbett. This book was released on 2018-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a story you’ll love and never forget."—Christopher McDougall, author, Born to Run and Natural Born Heroes Aside from her rock star looks, Catra Corbett is a standout in the running world on her accomplishments alone. Catra is the first American woman to run over one hundred miles or more on more than one hundred occasions and the first to run one hundred and two hundred miles in the Ohlone Wilderness, and she holds the fastest known double time for the 425-miles long John Muir Trail, completing it in twelve days, four hours, and fifty-seven minutes. And, unbelievably, she's also a former meth addict. After two years of addiction, Catra is busted while selling, and a night in jail is enough to set her straight. She gives up drugs and moves back home with her mother, abandoning her friends, her boyfriend, and the lifestyle that she came to depend on. Her only clean friend pushes her to train for a 10K with him, and surprisingly, she likes it—and decides to run her first marathon after that. In Reborn on the Run, the reader keeps pace with Catra as she runs through difficult terrain and extreme weather, is stalked by animals in the wilderness, and nearly dies on a training run but continues on, smashing running records and becoming one of the world's best ultrarunners. Along the way she attempts suicide, loses loved ones, falls in love, has her heartbroken, meets lifelong friends including her running partner and dachshund TruMan, and finally faces the past that led to her addiction.

Running Man

2017-09-05 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Charlie Engle
Release : 2017-09-05
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 791/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Running Man by : Charlie Engle

Download or read book Running Man written by Charlie Engle. This book was released on 2017-09-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After a decade-long addiction to crack cocaine and alcohol, Charlie Engle hit rock bottom after a near-fatal six-day binge ended in a hail of bullets. Then he found running, and it has helped keep him sober, focused and alive. He began to take on the most extreme endurance races, such as the 155-mile Gobi March, and developed a reputation as an inspirational speaker. However, after he made the documentary Running the Sahara, narrated by Matt Damon, which followed him on a 4500-mile crossing of the desert and helped raise $6 million, he was sent to prison after failing to complete his mortgage application properly. It was while he was in jail that he became known as 'The Running Man' as he pounded the prison yard, and soon his fellow inmates were joining him, finding new hope through running. Now, in his brilliantly written and powerful account, Engle tells the story of his life and how running has brought him so much pleasure and peace. Like such classics as Born to Runor Running with the Kenyans, this is a book that anyone who has ever found solace in the freedom of running will enjoy"--Google Books.

Born to Run

2010-12-09 Sports & Recreation

Author : Christopher McDougall
Release : 2010-12-09
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 28X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Born to Run by : Christopher McDougall

Download or read book Born to Run written by Christopher McDougall. This book was released on 2010-12-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller 'A sensation ... a rollicking tale well told' - The Times At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, came first in a prestigious 100-mile race wearing a toga and sandals. A small group of the world's top ultra-runners (and the awe-inspiring author) make the treacherous journey into the canyons to try to learn the tribe's secrets and then take them on over a course 50 miles long. With incredible energy and smart observation, McDougall tells this story while asking what the secrets are to being an incredible runner. Travelling to labs at Harvard, Nike, and elsewhere, he comes across an incredible cast of characters, including the woman who recently broke the world record for 100 miles and for her encore ran a 2:50 marathon in a bikini, pausing to down a beer at the 20 mile mark.

Marathon Woman

2017-04-04 Sports & Recreation

Author : Kathrine Switzer
Release : 2017-04-04
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Download or read book Marathon Woman written by Kathrine Switzer. This book was released on 2017-04-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of a sports icon's memoir, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Kathrine Switzer's historic running of the Boston Marathon as the first woman to run. In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to officially run what was then the all-male Boston Marathon, infuriating one of the event's directors who attempted to violently eject her. In one of the most iconic sports moments, Switzer escaped and finished the race. She made history-and is poised to do it again on the fiftieth anniversary of that initial race, when she will run the 2017 Boston Marathon at age 70. Now a spokesperson for Reebok, Switzer is also the founder of 261 Fearless, a foundation dedicated to creating opportunities for women on all fronts, as this groundbreaking sports hero has done throughout her life. "Kathrine Switzer is the Susan B. Anthony of women's marathoning."-Joan Benoit Samuelson, first Olympic gold medalist in the women's marathon

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