The Long Run : a memoir of loss and life in motion /

"An unlikely convert to distance running finds her way through grief and into the untold history of women and running. Thirty-year-old Catriona Menzies-Pike defined herself in many ways: voracious reader, pub crawler, feminist, backpacker, and, since her parents' deaths a decade earlier, o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Menzies-Pike, Catriona (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crown Publishers, [2016]
Edition:First American Edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction 1
  • Making a Scene
  • On the Treadmill
  • Born to Run
  • Running Like a Girl
  • On the Road
  • Telling tales 108
  • Look at Her Go
  • Rejoice, We Conquer!
  • Plan B
  • Over the Line
  • A One-Sentence Success Story
  • Hitting the Wall
  • Conclusion: Stories We Tell
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgements.