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    Running & Being: The Total Experience
    Running & Being: The Total Experience
    Running & Being: The Total Experience
    Audiobook10 hours

    Running & Being: The Total Experience

    Written by George Sheehan and Kenny Moore

    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

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    About this audiobook

    Written by the late, beloved Dr. George Sheehan, Running Being tells of the author's midlife return to the world of exercise, play, and competition, in which he found "a world beyond sweat" that proved to be a source of great revelation and personal growth. But Running Being focuses more on life than it does, specifically, on running. It provides an outline for a lifetime program of fitness and joy, showing how the body helps determine our mental and spiritual energies.

    Drawing from the words and actions of the great athletes and thinkers throughout history, Dr. Sheehan ties it all together with his own philosophy on the importance of fitness and sport, as well as his knowledge of training, injury prevention, and race competition. Above all, he describes what it means to experience the oneness of body and mind, of self and the universe. In this, he argues, we have the power to discover "the truth that makes men free."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateAug 8, 2017
    ISBN9781541480988
    Running & Being: The Total Experience

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    • 5/5
      Excellent. Ever runner can and will relate to this! Cannot wait to listen/ read again

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    • 2/5
      This was a hilarious book. Crazy over-the-top paeans to physical fitness as the ultimate virtue, wild claims about spirituality and its connection to running, and an insistence that every long-distance runner shares the same totally Asperger's traits as the author. I giggled all the way through.

      That said, the sections that are actual memoirs of races or discussions of the nuts-and-bolts of running are solid - among other things, the author gives a dead-on description of hypercorticism while pointing out that there was no current science to explain "staleness" resulting from overtraining.

      It's not a book I'd recommend - it's way too scattered, hyperbolic, and dated to really hang together - but it was a funny read.
    • 4/5
      This guy started active running when he was 48 - great! Runners philosophy, kind of. Finding your authentic self through physical activity. Would be better without far too many references to christian belief (unavoidable in american thinking?). Somewhat blurred towards the end.