I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

I Hate Running and You Can Too is a book that shares the author's wisdom, humor, attitude, tips, and quotes about running. It teaches readers how to get comfortable with being uncomfortable, embrace the mix of running with walking, and celebrate the mantra of "Easy, light, smooth, and fast." It also provides practical advice for training methods and dealing with setbacks or injuries. Running helps us understand commitment, develop patience, discover self-discipline, find mental toughness, and burn off extra servings of nachos.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 160 pages
\n Publication date: 16 March 2021
\n Publisher: Artisan
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BRENDAN LEONARD HATES RUNNING. He loathes it so much that he once completed fifty-two marathon-length runs in fifty-two weeks. Now, he's sharing everything he's learned about the sport so that you can hate it too. Packed with wisdom, humor, attitude, tips, and quotes—and more than sixty illuminating charts—I Hate Running and You Can Too delivers a powerful message of motivation from a truly relatable mentor. Leonard nails the love-hate relationship most runners have with the sport. He knows the difficulty of getting off the couch, teaches us to get comfortable with being uncomfortable, embraces the mix of running with walking. And he shares all that he's learned—celebrating the mantra of "Easy, light, smooth, and fast," observing that any body that runs is a runner's body. Plus, Leonard knows all the practical stuff, from training methods to advice for when you hit a setback or get injured. Even the answer to that big question a lot of runners occasionally ask: Why? Easy: Running helps us understand commitment, develop patience, discover self-discipline, find mental toughness, and prove to ourselves that we can do something demanding. And, of course, burn off that extra serving of nachos.

BRENDAN LEONARD HATES RUNNING. He loathes it so much that he once completed fifty-two marathon-length runs in fifty-two weeks. Now, he's sharing everything he's learned about the sport so that you can hate it too. Packed with wisdom, humor, attitude, tips, and quotes—and more than sixty illuminating charts—I Hate Running and You Can Too delivers a powerful message of motivation from a truly relatable mentor. Leonard nails the love-hate relationship most runners have with the sport. He knows the difficulty of getting off the couch, teaches us to get comfortable with being uncomfortable, embraces the mix of running with walking. And he shares all that he's learned—celebrating the mantra of "Easy, light, smooth, and fast," observing that any body that runs is a runner's body. Plus, Leonard knows all the practical stuff, from training methods to advice for when you hit a setback or get injured. Even the answer to that big question a lot of runners occasionally ask: Why? Easy: Running helps us understand commitment, develop patience, discover self-discipline, find mental toughness, and prove to ourselves that we can do something demanding. And, of course, burn off that extra serving of nachos.

\n Weight: 256g\n
Dimension: 135 x 177 x 18 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781579659882\n \n