Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running

by Rachel Toor

Book Overview

Rachel Toor was a bookish egghead who ran only to catch a bus. How such an unlikely athlete became a runner of ultramarathons is the story of Personal Record , an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner's life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why. A chronicle of Toor's relationship with the sport...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803260334
• ISBN13: 9780803260337
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"