Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

It was an odd experience to find the book simultaneously so inspiring and yet find the author so irritating. Fiercely competitive in the way that turned me off anything athletic for 90% of my life, sexist (eff anyone using the word “Chicked” to describe the humiliation (eyeroll) of being passed by gasp a woman), and not without at least one racial slur.

Still, for some reason I persisted, and I did really resonate with the idea of “doing what needs to be done” and pushing through challenges instead of giving up.

Would I recommend it to others? Probably not. I bet there are way more inspiring books out there by people that wouldn't bug me as much. Still, I suppose that having found this on the side of the road in a free box it was worth every penny.