A humorous yet sensible guide filled with motivating and surprising advice along with illuminating charts and graphs for runners who have a love/hate relationship with the sport.
I Hate Running and You Can Too is a humorous, punchy, motivating guide to running longer distances than some might think sensible?whether that's a 5K or a marathon. Outside magazine columnist, chart-ist, and longtime runner, Brendan Leonard gets real on the love/hate relationship all runners have with the sport. He breaks down running in terms that speak to everyone who has ever struggled to get out the door and go for a run: getting comfortable being uncomfortable, how to start small and stick with it, that walking is a completely legitimate running strategy, and devising your own definition of success. Filled with 75 charts and graphs that give readers a sensible way to think about running, I Hate Running and You Can Too breaks down the reality of the training miles versus race miles, how to stay motivated, and what to do when faced with setbacks. I Hate Running and You Can Too shows readers that you won't always like running (sometimes you'll even hate it), but if you just keep going, you might learn to love it too.
“Filled with empathy, understanding, and enthusiasm,
I Hate Running and You Can Too made us love running more than ever and gave us bonus love
for charts that make you laugh until your stomach hurts.”
—Megan Roche, MD, and David Roche, authors of The Happy Runner and coaches whose athletes have won more than twenty U.S. national championship races “As the author of
Eat Bacon, Don’t Jog, I assumed I’d never run again. Then I read chapter two.”
—Grant Petersen, author and founder of Rivendell Bicycle Works “Brendan has a mad genius way to convey the mundane aspects of running. No matter if you’re a total newbie or veteran runner, this book just might make you run a little farther or faster and have a laugh while doing it!”
—Scott Jurek, seven-time champion of the 100-mile Western States Endurance Run and New York Times bestselling author of Eat & Run
