Get my FREE Running Book on Amazon.com - Just two more days!

I got it and it was excellent.

It is definitely worth reading.

I downloaded mine today (haven't read it yet--too busy) but I would have pay and support the running community..:) looking forward to reading it! Thank you!!!

There's no such thing as a free lunch...or book.

Sayer of things wrote:

There's no such thing as a free lunch...or book.

It's absolutely FREE, at least for two more days. And thanks for the compliments, guys. I really appreciate it.

Nope. Not free.

Yep, free, Free, FREE! Or are you planning on sending me a check? LOL.

Nothing is free. Don't you have to be able to access the interwebs to get this "book"? And where is the book to be stored? Who is paying for the required electricity?

Huwyst wrote:

Nothing is free. Don't you have to be able to access the interwebs to get this "book"? And where is the book to be stored? Who is paying for the required electricity?

"Interwebs?" Same as the internet? I assume you're already paying for your internet regardless of whether you pick up my free book or not, since you surely didn't have your internet connected today just to download it. Soooo . . . the book is free, independent of your internet bill. Oh, and another thing is free too: Your bumping my thread to the top of the forum with each new post! Thanks!

Thanks a lot Shawn!

Got the book. Look so forward to read it :-)

1) No need for the aside on what a fibula is - if the reader doesn't know they will research it.

2) No caged bird analogies Shawn Angelou

his eireness wrote:

1) No need for the aside on what a fibula is - if the reader doesn't know they will research it.

2) No caged bird analogies Shawn Angelou

Thanks, his eireness. But unfortunately not all readers are as knowledeable as some of us are about anatomy. Would you believe that there are beginning runners who don't even know what a shinsplint is? As for the caged bird analogies, I originally chose caged warthog, but somehow it just didn't work as well. LOL. As I recall Stephen King said, and I paraphrase, there are no new stories, but simply the same stories told a different way.

that passage is brutual. this stuff would make a mediocre blog post, I can't believe it is an actual book.

Question: did you have to pay to get it published?

It's self-published, Jerry, and the great thing about Amazon is that even the most mediocre writers like myself can get anything through. Just like some of the people on this forum. In the words of Pink Floyd, "Who let all this riff raff into the room?"

Shawn H wrote:

his eireness wrote:

1) No need for the aside on what a fibula is - if the reader doesn't know they will research it.

2) No caged bird analogies Shawn Angelou

Thanks, his eireness. But unfortunately not all readers are as knowledeable as some of us are about anatomy. Would you believe that there are beginning runners who don't even know what a shinsplint is? As for the caged bird analogies, I originally chose caged warthog, but somehow it just didn't work as well. LOL. As I recall Stephen King said, and I paraphrase, there are no new stories, but simply the same stories told a different way.

Yes, I would believe it. Do you think I'm oblivious to people outside of running, or to beginning runners? You can't define every running or anatomically specific piece of your writing - the onus is on the reader to educate themselves for terms they don't understand. For instance, you didn't define stress fracture, and that was appropriate.

We just aren't to agree on the 2nd point. There is a difference between an interesting new spin on a metaphor vs. merely using different wording.

But it's all subjective. Those were my humble thoughts on first pass.