The Long Run: A Memoir of Loss and Life in Motion

Soon she realized that running, "a pace suited to the precarious labor of memory", was helping her to grieve the loss of her parents in ways that she had been, for 10 messy years, running away from. Yet when she began training for a half marathon on a whim, she found herself an instant convert. As she brings to life the stories of pioneering athletes and analyzes the figure of the woman runner in pop culture, literature, and myth, she comes to the heart of why she's running - and why any of us do.. "Runner" was nowhere near the list. As Catriona excavates her own past, she also grows curious about other women drawn to running. What she finds is a history of repression and denial - running was thought to endanger childbearing, and as late as 1967 the organizer of the Boston Marathon tried to drag a woman off the course, telling her to "get the hell out of my race" - but also of incredible courage and achievement. An unlikely marathoner finds her way through grief and into the untold history of women and running.Thirty-year-old Catriona Menzies-Pike defined herself in

Jessica Langlois said Good running memoir!. I was looking forward to this book because I love to read books about running, especially memoirs! And this author is articulate and educated, and has a definite feminist point of view. She included a lot of running history I hadn't heard before, as well as some I did know, and I really enjoyed reading about the different historical perceptions of women as runners. She is from Australia, so I enjoyed hearing a less US-centric point of view. The Lives Before and After prisrob My daughter has run the Boston Marathon four times and has run up the tallest mountain in New England, Mt Washington. I am so proud of her and her expertise, but all this time I have wondered why. Many of her friends over the last twenty years were made in a running club, so I understood the bond of the runner.In this book, Catriona Menzies-Pike relates her story of running. Born to a father who loved running,and a mother who did not, Catr. Not so much a memoir of loss than it is a memoir of life (after 30) in motion "The Long Run - A Memoir of Loss and Life in Motion" (2017 publication; 256 pages) is a non-fiction book from Australian author Catriona Menzies-Pike. In the book's Introduction, the author comments that "When I was twenty years old, in 1998, my father, who loved running, and my mother, who didn't, died in a place crash", wow. She also notes that "I had come to running relatively late. I didn't even bother to put on my sneakers until I was