The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life Author: John "The Penguin" Bingham | Language: English | ISBN:
0684854554 | Format: EPUB
The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life Description
About the Author
John Bingham writes "The Penguin Chronicles," a monthly column in
Runner's World, maintains a popular Web site, and trains other "slow and steady" runners nationwide. He lives in Tennessee.
- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Touchstone (April 7, 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0684854554
- ISBN-13: 978-0684854557
- Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Do you enjoy "The Penguin Chronicles", a monthly column in Runner's World? The column's author, John "The Penguin" Bingham, now has a book out to complement the column. The book is entitled "The Courage to Start : A Guide to Running for Your Life."
This book is a must read for runners of all ability levels, from beginning runners to those who have been running for decades. Bingham gives practical advice to beginning runners, as well as showing how running transcends from a physical activity to a self-discovery of yourself. His revelations are insightful and motivational. Once you start reading this book, you will not be able to put it down.
Bingham began running in 1992 as a 43-year-old, 240-pound, couch potato. His first run consisted of sprinting down his driveway for about 30 seconds. That was all his legs, lungs and ego could take. But unlike many other times in his life when he had given up, he didn't quit this time. For some reason he stuck with running, and managed to run ? mile, then ? mile, a mile, and increasingly more. As the months passed and he shed the excess weight, he found himself running 5Ks, 10Ks, half marathons, and eventually, full marathons.
He first began to tell his story on the internet via the Dead Runners Society (DRS). He sent out an e-mail telling about a race where he nearly finished last, but was finding himself a happier and healthier person because of running. Much to his surprise, he received responses from readers that said he had told their stories. They said he had managed to put into words what they were feeling about themselves, and about the metamorphosis that running was causing in their lives.
From these initial e-mails, "The Penguin Chronicles" was born.
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