{"product_id":"personal-record-a-love-affair-with-running","title":"Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running","description":"Rachel Toor was a bookish egghead who ran only to catch a bus. How such an unlikely athlete became a runner of ultramarathons is the story of \u003ci\u003ePersonal Record\u003c\/i\u003e, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner's life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, and the watch are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why. A chronicle of Toor's relationship with the sport of running, from her early incarnation as an Oreo-eating couch potato to her emergence as a hard-bodied marathoner, this book explores the sport of running, the community it brings into being, and the personal satisfaction of pursuing it to its limit. An homage to running, a literary take on how an activity can turn into a passion and how a passion can become a way of life, Toor's book runs all the way from individual achievement--a personal record--to the world of friendship and community.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rachel Toor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52412207956199,"sku":"9780803234260","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0913\/8151\/files\/9780803234260-us.jpg?v=1784918773","url":"https:\/\/neighborbookstx.com\/products\/personal-record-a-love-affair-with-running","provider":"Neighbor Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}