I'm a 17 year old male junior in high school. Been running for a while and I'm definitely into it. I've always had an emotional tie and competitive drive for running track and cross country and I was wondering if anyone had any good running book recommendations. I'm not looking to read something about ultra-marathoners- hoping for something more high school or collegiate running related.
sub 4 is a good one
Meb's biography
Once a Runner is the classic. I read it in high school as I was just getting into running and it really got me excited about it.
Good for you for wanting to read and become better at your passion. I too (15 years ago) was a 17 year old competitive and successful cross country and track runner.
Recently I published the book "Running State" with Amazon and the story focuses on a 17 yr old senior in high school who is trying to lead his Cross country team to the state meet (as it has been 30 years since that school's team actually qualified for the state meet).
I loved writing it and much of the book is based on my experiences from running and being the captain of both the Cross Country and Track teams at my school, and the book is getting all 5 star reviews so far.
It is available on Amazon in paperback for $7.99:
http://www.amazon.com/Running-State-Michael-D-Graham/dp/1475276230/
It is also available on Amazon in digital ebook format for $2.99:
http://www.amazon.com/Running-State-ebook/dp/B007X93STQ/
I am sure you will enjoy it.
Send me an email back and let me know what you thought of the book if you like at:
Thanks & Happy reading!
Mike
Way to start a thread to pump your own book. Next time, just start the thread promoting it outright.
Once a Runner
Again to Carthage
Sub 4
Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend
Running with the Buffaloes
reggier wrote:
Way to start a thread to pump your own book. Next time, just start the thread promoting it outright.
I think this is the worst case of it I've seen so far on this site. There are five book threads on the front page right now. If I had any interest in reading this guy's book before it is now gone.
ycjuyf wrote:
reggier wrote:Way to start a thread to pump your own book. Next time, just start the thread promoting it outright.
I think this is the worst case of it I've seen so far on this site. There are five book threads on the front page right now. If I had any interest in reading this guy's book before it is now gone.
Look at the dates. I think it's pretty unlikely that some guy would start a fake book request thread to promote his book a couple of months in advance of actually promoting it. It looks like the guy did a search for book threads and spammed them all. OK, but it's probably reasonable to promote a new (self published?) running book on a running forum.
I never said he started the threads. It's not tough to search "book" and bump a few threads. It's reasonable to promote a book, yes, but to do something like that shows me that this guy is probably a clown with nothing of value to sell.
ycjuyf:
Thanks for the feedback; for helping me notice that my posts could have looked like spamming to some people. My sincere apologies.
I did not mean to offend anybody with giving some promo for my book. I am excited about my book and very proud of it. I decided to search running books on this site and respond to a few of them with info on my book. I picked about 4 or 5 threads, made my post about it and quit there.
I do NOT want to "SPAM" threads with listless posts that have nothing to do with the topic being discussed.
I just figured if people were truly typing back and forth to each other on a certain thread about trying to find a good running book - that would be the only place to legitimately recommend my book.
Thanks for the feedback - best of luck to you in your future ventures,
Mike
Once a Runner is the benchmark with the more recent Chasing Ghosts a solid choice also. Both explore the pyschological side of running and how it impacts the rest of a runner's life.