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After the loss of a dear friend, Van Amerongen decides to tackle a year of different 30 day challenges. One of the challenges was to run a mile every day for 30 days. At the end of the month, she kept on running. This book is the log of her runs, her insights, and her pro tips gathered over one year of daily running. At first, I thought it was going to be boring reading her training log. Not at all. Her entries are peppered with humor, with creativity, and reality. I never understood run streake
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I enjoyed this book. I found the entries to be about the right length and she didn’t seem to have the need to write for the sake of an entry. Like her streak saving miles, some entries were just that. Liked seeing how much she learned about herself as she finished this quest, and how running was such a family affair. Enjoyed her entry into trail running toward the end, and how she was able to maintain over a busy work schedule. Good, light read
Sep 17, 2017
Whitney
marked it as to-read
