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“Sagal has created a new genre—the five-minute-mile memoir. Combining commentary and reflection about running with a deeply felt personal story, this book is winning, smart, honest, and affecting. Whether you are a runner or not, it will move you.” —Susan Orlean
In the midpoint of life, I found myself lost, in a dark place. So I tried to figure out exactly how many miles I had run to get there...
So begins The Incomplete Book of Running, a funny, wise, and powerful meditation about running and life from Peter Sagal, longtime columnist for Runner’s World and the host of NPR’s Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, that shares stories, advice, and warnings he’s learned over his long and checkered career on the pavement.
Just before turning forty, Sagal—brainiac Harvard grad, short bald Jew with a disposition toward heft, and sedentary star of public radio who had exercised sporadically as a teenager—started running seriously. A decade later, what began as a simple mission to keep himself healthy had evolved into fourteen marathon finishes—including one in Boston in 2013, where he crossed the line only moments before two bombs went off—and tens of thousands of miles on roads, sidewalks, paths, and trails all over the United States and the world. Running was an important part of his life, but it wasn’t until he experienced a personal crisis that he realized it had become a mode of survival.
In these pages, Sagal writes with humor and insight about the moments that have changed the way he sees the relationship between life and sport—from running a charity race in his underwear (in St. Louis, in February) and attempting to “quiet his colon” while taking a lap in his neighborhood to volunteering as a guide for visually impaired runners, causing a scandal by sneaking onto a course midrace, and making his triumphant post-bombing return to Boston in 2014. He also dives deep into the emotional experience of running, body image, the similarities between endurance sports and sadomasochism, the legacy of the sport as passed down from parent and child, and the odd but extraordinary bonds created among strangers and friends sharing the road. As time goes on and his mileage increases, he realizes that the only way to overcome obstacles is simply to keep running through them.
Candid, clear-eyed, and frequently hilarious, The Incomplete Book of Running is about more than just a man and a sport. It is a field guide to life, a collection of lessons centered around all those things that keep us moving forward hope, persistence, practice, and love.
Ebook The Incomplete Book of Running eBook Peter Sagal
"I would recommend this book to all runners, especially middle-aged, recently divorced men! A beautiful reminder of how this sport enhances all facets of our lives."
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The Incomplete Book of Running eBook Peter Sagal Reviews :
The Incomplete Book of Running eBook Peter Sagal Reviews
- I need to preface this review by noting my biases I am also a short, bald father employed by an NPR station who loves to run and who also loves the Boston Red Sox. So my affinity towards Mr. Sagal is a given.
With that said I really loved this book and would have loved it whether or not my affinity towards Mr. Sagal was an undercurrent in my thinking. As a runner, a father, a husband, a person who has questioned their lifestyle upon notice of love handles, a person who has gone through both triumphs and struggles, this book hits nearly every reason why I don't "go out for a jog," but call myself "a runner."
Perhaps it's best to start with what this book IS NOT.
It's not a Talmudic interpretation of Hanson's marathon training (although both the Talmud and marathon training come up in the book). It's not a self-help book on how to start running (although you'll be inspired to start running if you aren't a runner already). It's not a sojourn through Mr. Sagal's lifetime running accomplishments (although you do visit several periods of his life and he does note some of his accomplishments). It's not like any other running book I have ever read (and I've read quite a few).
The best way I can describe the book is this it's what I imagine it would be like if I bellied up to the bar with Pete (because it's a bar, I'd call him Pete and not Mr. Sagal, unless he insisted) and had a few beers while talking about life, running, fatherhood, marriage, heartbreak, struggles, and triumphs.
There are funny parts (obviously), some great stories (especially his experience as a guide for blind runners at the '13 and '14 Boston Marathon), and some pretty profound moments. No offense to Mr. Sagal (notice we aren't at the bar in this situation, so I'm more formal), but I didn't think I'd have to read this book with a pencil for underlining purposes as I, perhaps naively, did not approach this book with the idea that there would be quotes or thoughts to which I would want to return. But there were many moments where I stopped to think about the profundity of a sentence or an observation or a quote.
Every runner will feel a familiarity with some of the concepts, thoughts, and feelings about which Pete writes (I'm drinking a beer as I type this so I'm going back to the informal for this part). Every father, husband, mother, wife, sibling, aunt, or uncle will feel the same. The book not so much explores the life of a runner, but all of our lives searching for meaning, for a goal, for security, for self-worth, for a life well lived.
I highly recommend it for everyone. - This is an interesting book written by Peter Sagal ( host of NPRs “Wait, Wait ... Don’t Tell Meâ€). The book is about his running life with particular focus on the year of his divorce. The book varies between being funny, thoughtful, sad, insightful. It is an easy read ... part memoir, part running book.
- If the key test of a running book is whether or not it makes you want to get outside and running again as soon as possible, then this book gets an A+. Also, Peter? Can I give you a hug?
- From the title of the book (I am, of course, an owner of "The Complete Book of Running") to the anecdotal stories told in a self-effacing manor, this book was a joy to read. The author downplays his abilities as a runner. But as a repeat Boston Marathoner and runner of almost 40 years, I am impressed with his running and his perspective on running and yes, even life's ups and downs. Worth the read if you like a fun look at running and life in general.
- I enjoyed the book, so much so that I started reading it a second time. There was a small portion that ran contrary to my personal beliefs, but i skipped over it. I enjoyed how Peter interwove his personal running experiences with events affecting running and how different people approach running. In particular, those for whom running poses additional challenges. Many have mentioned how much Peter's decaying marriage and subsequent divorce are mentioned in the book. I personally viewed it as a sad background story and sought to enjoy the merits of the book despite it. That aspect does seem to come to a happy ending.
- Don’t be shortsighted or fooled by the (shoe) tongue-in-cheek cover. There’s so much more in this book than meets the eye. Sagal is nothing short of a marathoning mensch who goes long and strong on everything from his own discovery of running as a reluctant teenager, to his midlife rediscovery of it, to adolescent growing pains, family oddities (an oxymoron), how we see ourselves, meeting life’s difficult challenges, aging and, last but not least, truly caring about others, e.g., by always being there, looking out for, and “stepping up†for visually-impaired runners, among others. "Incomplete" in audio delivers the complete experience Sagal’s familiar voice – smart, funny, and genuinely, likably humble – makes it a fully entertaining romp, and definitely a great run for your money…
- This is a good book for anyone who also became a middle aged runner or is thinking of it. There are some great insights and anecdotes. I missed having a little more of the sense of humor Mr. Sagal provides on Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me, and I thought at times it was a little self indulgent but enjoyed it and would recommend it.
- I would recommend this book to all runners, especially middle-aged, recently divorced men! A beautiful reminder of how this sport enhances all facets of our lives.
