Running & Being: The Total Experience
8 best books like Running & Being: The Total Experience (George Sheehan): Once a Runner, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness, Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine, Again to Carthage, My Life on the Run: The Wit, Wisdom, and Insights of a Road Racing Icon, Daniels' Running Formula, Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind, Finding Ultra, Revised and Updated Edition: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
| Author | John L. Parker Jr. |
| ISBN | 0915297019 |
Once a Runner captures the essence of what it means to be a competitive runner; to devote your entire existence to a single-minded pursuit of excellence. It has become one of the most beloved sports novels ever written. Originally self-published in 1978 and sold at road races out of the trunk of the author’s...
Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
| Author | Scott Jurek |
| ISBN | 0547569653 |
For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force—and darling—in the grueling and growing sport of ultrarunning. Until recently he held the American 24-hour record and he was one of the elite runners profiled in the runaway bestseller Born to Run.
In Eat and Run, Jurek opens...
Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine
| Author | Tom Jordan |
| ISBN | 0875964575 |
For five years, no American runner could beat him at any distance over a mile. But at the age of 24, with his best years still ahead, long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine finally lost. Driving alone at night after a party, Prefontaine crashed his sports car, putting a tragic, shocking end to the life...
| Author | John L. Parker Jr. |
| ISBN | 1891369776 |
John L. Parker, Jr.’s first novel, Once a Runner, is the cult novel for runners. Self-published in the late 1970s, and for years sold out of the trunk of the author’s car at running events, it went on to sell over 100,000 copies and achieve legendary status among runners.
It perfectly captured...
My Life on the Run: The Wit, Wisdom, and Insights of a Road Racing Icon
| Author | Bart Yasso |
| ISBN | 1594869413 |
Dubbed the "Mayor of Running," Bart Yasso is one of the best-known figures in the sport, but few people know why he started running competitively, how it changed his life, or how his brush with a crippling illness nearly ended his career a decade ago. With insight and humor, My Life on the Run chronicles...
| Author | Jack Daniels |
| ISBN | 0736054928 |
Get in the best shape of your running career with the scientifically based training in Daniels' Running Formula. In the book that Runner's World magazine called "the best training book," premier running coach Jack Daniels provides you with his proven VDOT formula to guide you through training at exactly...
Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind
| Author | Sakyong Mipham |
| ISBN | 0307888169 |
A unique fitness program from a highly respected spiritual leader that blends physical and spiritual practice for everyone - regardless of age, spiritual background, or ability - to great benefits for both body and soul.
As a Tibetan lama and leader of Shambhala (an international community...
Finding Ultra, Revised and Updated Edition: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
| Author | Rich Roll |
| ISBN | 0307952207 |
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Finding Ultra is an incredible but true account of achieving one of the most awe-inspiring midlife physical transformations ever
On the night before he was to turn forty, Rich Roll experienced a chilling glimpse of his future....
