I loved OAR. I didn't know so many runners didn't like it.
I loved OAR. I didn't know so many runners didn't like it.
Sub 4
Its awesome cuz it has Brannen. But webb ruins it. he just complains the whole damn time. at one point he says he should be running 3:25 in the 1500. douche
Isn't Lance Armstrong the Lance Armstrong of the running world?
ok? wrote:
"Lance Armstrong of the running world"
What the hell does that even mean??
Running with the buffs.
OAR isn't great writing. It's not even that compeling of a story. I think its been loved by many because of two reasons 1. the scense where they're sitting around talking about running rings very true. I know I've had a lot conversations like those. 2. It's a fantasy many secretly wish they could engage in. Drop out of soceity and just train like crazy. I know I've thought about it.
Truthfully haven't read many books about running. I enjoyed Running w/ the Buffaloes and Sub-4... both we're good.
I heard PAIN was bad... reading the sumamry on Amazon it sounds like its the anit-OAR (like Raging Bull is the antithesis of Rocky)...
As far a training books go... there are too many bad ones to name. The NYRR put out the Complete Book of Running by Gloria Auverbach... Having met the author... she's completely clueless... How she came to write about about running blows my mind.
I have that book...I bought it in 8th or ninth grade when I fisrt started running like a mile. It is terrible, john stanton actually did a foot scan on me in the running room in edmontont alberta one time. i thought he was a legend.
I could run circles around him now and Im female. Maybe I should right my own running book.
canadiangirlinusa wrote:
I have that book...I bought it in 8th or ninth grade when I fisrt started running like a mile. It is terrible, john stanton actually did a foot scan on me in the running room in edmontont alberta one time. i thought he was a legend.
I could run circles around him now and Im female. Maybe I should right my own running book.
I would buy your book if you included stories like that in it...and you would sell a million copies to the average letsrun.com visitor if you included pics.
I read a terrible one called Harriers. It\\\'s about some shitty Ohio team that wins the small school division. Some guy on the team wrote it and it\\\'s just plain painful to read.
canadiangirlinusa wrote:
I have that book...I bought it in 8th or ninth grade when I fisrt started running like a mile. It is terrible, john stanton actually did a foot scan on me in the running room in edmontont alberta one time. i thought he was a legend.
I could run circles around him now and Im female. Maybe I should right my own running book.
As long as somebody else does the proof reading!
PR Machine wrote:Actually it was the other way around... I went streaking and then my name was in the paper.
haha.
I agree with the criticism of OAR.. However I read the book when I was like 35 yrs old. So I pretty much hated it. However, had I read the book when I was 15-20 I might have really liked it.
EZ10Miler wrote:
However, had I read the book when I was 15-20 I might have really liked it.
Thus, that's why the book is so popular on this board. A lot of 15-20 year olds with taste for S.
It's a great fantasy story for bitter, skinny HS nerds.
The sad fact is that OAR was written by an adult who never matured out of his narcissistic adolescent bitterness.
A few days ago, I saw sub 4 in one of those outlet bookstores on sale for sub $4.
I have to chime in with any book written by Hal Higdon or Joe Henderson. Pure garbage. Oh, and the new Gallowalk book too.
As much as I liked Once A Runner, I have to say that Again to Carthage was really one of the most unreadable books I've ever bought.
I just read Again to Carthage and thought it was complete garbage. I even liked OAR before reading the sequel but this caused me to entirely lose respect for Parker and his writings.