Runner, by Lizzy Hawker
05/14/20 • 44 min
Runner, a Short Story About a Long Run, by Lizzy Hawker, is a memoire about how Lizzy accidently discovered ultra-running, and her journey of self-discovery through testing her limits with running.
Who Is Lizzy Hawker?
A Ph.D. in oceanography, a Briton with great adventuring spirit now sharing her time between Switzerland and Nepal. Her list of accomplishments includes:
o 100 km women’s world champion in 2006
o 5-time winner of the UTMB, most prestigious Ultra in Europe (unprecedented)
o 24-hour record on the road in 2011
o First woman to be on the overall winner’s podium at Spartathlon
o 2013 National Geographic Adventurer of the year
o Ran 320 km through the Himalayas from Everest Basecamp to Kathmandu in Nepal
The book has 16 chapters but falls into 3 distinct parts
Part 1: A Journey of Discovery.
Lizzy shows her thirst for the experience of tough challenges and begins winning major Ultra events almost by accident.
Part 2: A Journey of Exploration
Lizzy falls in love with Nepal and the Himalayas. She also sets FKTs for Everest base camp to Kathmandu. During this episode Alan tries to explain how this feels through his own discovery of trail running and journey to the Himalayas. Liz gets lost a bit in the unfamiliar geography.
Part 3: A Journey of Rediscovery and Exploration
Lizzy battles with injury, a repeated series of stress fractures. Liz marvels at her ability to treat this as another type of challenge and opportunity to learn. Alan is amazed.
At the end Liz has some reservations about the book and Alan is a starry-eyed groupie!
The book itself is nicely presented by UK publisher Aurum Press. (now White Lion)
If you are interested in purchasing a copy this book, you can help support the podcast at the same time by getting your copy through our affiliate link at: Runner: A short story about a long run
Any feedback or suggestions on this review or any of our other podcast episodes would be greatly welcomed. Leave us a review using your favorite podcast player or contact us on social media.
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Runner, a Short Story About a Long Run, by Lizzy Hawker, is a memoire about how Lizzy accidently discovered ultra-running, and her journey of self-discovery through testing her limits with running.
Who Is Lizzy Hawker?
A Ph.D. in oceanography, a Briton with great adventuring spirit now sharing her time between Switzerland and Nepal. Her list of accomplishments includes:
o 100 km women’s world champion in 2006
o 5-time winner of the UTMB, most prestigious Ultra in Europe (unprecedented)
o 24-hour record on the road in 2011
o First woman to be on the overall winner’s podium at Spartathlon
o 2013 National Geographic Adventurer of the year
o Ran 320 km through the Himalayas from Everest Basecamp to Kathmandu in Nepal
The book has 16 chapters but falls into 3 distinct parts
Part 1: A Journey of Discovery.
Lizzy shows her thirst for the experience of tough challenges and begins winning major Ultra events almost by accident.
Part 2: A Journey of Exploration
Lizzy falls in love with Nepal and the Himalayas. She also sets FKTs for Everest base camp to Kathmandu. During this episode Alan tries to explain how this feels through his own discovery of trail running and journey to the Himalayas. Liz gets lost a bit in the unfamiliar geography.
Part 3: A Journey of Rediscovery and Exploration
Lizzy battles with injury, a repeated series of stress fractures. Liz marvels at her ability to treat this as another type of challenge and opportunity to learn. Alan is amazed.
At the end Liz has some reservations about the book and Alan is a starry-eyed groupie!
The book itself is nicely presented by UK publisher Aurum Press. (now White Lion)
If you are interested in purchasing a copy this book, you can help support the podcast at the same time by getting your copy through our affiliate link at: Runner: A short story about a long run
Any feedback or suggestions on this review or any of our other podcast episodes would be greatly welcomed. Leave us a review using your favorite podcast player or contact us on social media.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/runningbookreviews/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/reviews_running
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/runningbookreviews/
Podcast webpage: https://runningbookreviews.buzzsprout.com
If you have been enjoying the podcast and want more, you can find some extras on our By Me a Coffee site! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/runningbookreviews
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Running Rewired, by Jay Dicharry
Jay Dicharry’s book explains how to reinvent your running for better stability, speed and strength.
Alan and Liz take you through it in detail covering each of the books 3 parts:
1. The rationale; what is going on with the runner’s body.
2. How to drive your run in a customised fashion with targeted precision and performance exercises.
3. How to rewire your running brain with workouts to reinforce the new behaviours.
Training harder might just be reinforcing poor running patterns. Stop forcing “plan B”, and switch to your “plan A”. Jay uses a step by step approach to tells us how to do this, and why it is important.
There are clear explanations of what is going on inside your mind and body, demystifying some of the more common scientific jargon we hear around running.
Discover how to find out what YOUR body needs to do to be a better runner, and then convince your brain to send it a revised set of instructions! Sounds magical? Well it’s going to take some work.
Jay shows us each drill and exercise in sumptuous illustrated form, before assembling them into a menu of routines. Each person can then select routines from the menu based on needs, skill level, and where they are in their training plan.
Liz offers her advanced experience with the programs in the book, and Alan contributes his beginner experience trying to get his glutes to show up for a run!
As usual the team give the book a thorough and enthusiastic examination. Is it the book for you? You will certainly know by the end.
If you are interested in getting a copy of this book, and also helping out the podcast, you can get the book through this affiliate link: Running Rewired: Reinvent Your Run for Stability, Strength, and Speed
Any feedback or suggestions on this review or any of our other podcast episodes would be greatly welcomed. Leave us a review using your favorite podcast player or contact us on social media.
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/reviews_running
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Podcast webpage: https://runningbookreviews.buzzsprout.com
If you have been enjoying the podcast and want more, you can find some extras on our By Me a Coffee site! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/runningbookreviews
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Strong, by Kara Goucher
Kara Goucher's book Strong: A Runner's Guide to Boosting Confidence and Becoming the Best Version of You was published by Blue Star Press in 2018. In the name of full disclosure, Blue Star Press was kind enough to provide us a free copy to review. Kara Goucher is one of the USA's most decorated, and most recognizable female runners. She has a long list of accomplishments both on the track and on the road and has been on the US Olympic team in 2012 and 2016. Her book aims to help other athletes boost their self-confidence using the same sports psychology techniques that she used during her career. Kara doesn't claim to BE a sports psychologist, but rather she recognizes that many runners deal with confidence issues, and wants to share techniques that were helpful for her.
The techniques Kara provides in the book are:
· Positive self-talk
· Mantra
· Setting goals
· Enclothed cognition
· Power pose
· Visualization
· Power words
· Social connection
This book has limited theoretical backgrounds about each individual technique, but this is not the goal of the book anyway. It provides questions and exercises to guide the reader in applying the technique and provides examples from Kara Goucher's own confidence journal as examples.
Kara also has other female athletes (Molly Huddle and Emma Coburn, to name a couple) contribute their own struggles and ideas about confidence, and it really shows how the elites struggle with the same demons as we do. Kara tells us how she used to feel like she didn't belong when she would line up to run high caliber races.
If you are interested in getting a copy of this book, and also helping out the podcast, you can get the book through this Amazon.ca affiliate link: Strong: A Runner's Guide to Being the Best Version of You
Any feedback or suggestions on this review or any of our other podcast episodes would be greatly welcomed. Leave us a review using your favorite podcast player or contact us on social media.
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Podcast webpage: https://runningbookreviews.buzzsprout.com
If you have been enjoying the podcast and want more, you can find some extras on our By Me a Coffee site! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/runningbookreviews
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