Eat and Run
by Scott Jurek
Seven-time Western States winner Jurek's memoir of a hard Minnesota childhood, a plant-based diet and the races that made him, with recipes between chapters. It is more thoughtful than most athlete memoirs and the sections on his mother's illness give it weight.
Read it if…
you want an endurance memoir with some interior life.
Skip it if…
you want a training plan; there is none.
Three things you will actually use
- Sometimes you just do things.
- Fuel matters more the longer you go.
- Pain is a conversation, not a verdict.
Do this first
Read the Badwater chapter and then cook one recipe.
Our verdict
An endurance memoir with interior life.
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