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26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career
Meb Keflezighi
4.06 AVERAGE
4 reviews for:
26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career
Meb Keflezighi
4.06 AVERAGE
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
As a runner/racer for twenty five or so years, once I had to give up running due to too many injuries, I quit cold turkey, my obsession with reading all things running. That was the only way I could keep myself from taking up running again. But now, many years later, I saw this book on NetGalley and knew I could read it since I've successfully replaced running with other types of exercise that I enjoy.
I wasn't totally oblivious to the running world and was familiar with the name Meb Keflezighi, especially since marathons were one of my favorite races. Meb is the first person in history to win an Olympic medal, the New York Marathon, and the Boston marathon. Meb was 42 years old when he retired from his extraordinary distance-running career but he's still a runner and his heart is with all runners of all distances and all speeds. In this book he tells about each of the 26 marathons that he ran and the lessons he learned from each one of them. These lessons that don't just relate to running but to life, all aspects of life and can be applied to each of us, even if we've never run a step in our lives.
Thanks to this book, I'm back to reading about running. I know I'll be checking out the biography about Meb, Run to Overcome: The Inspiring Story of an American Champion's Long-Distance Quest to Achieve a Big Dream.
Published March 19th 2019. Thank you to Crown Publishing and NetGalley for this ARC.
I wasn't totally oblivious to the running world and was familiar with the name Meb Keflezighi, especially since marathons were one of my favorite races. Meb is the first person in history to win an Olympic medal, the New York Marathon, and the Boston marathon. Meb was 42 years old when he retired from his extraordinary distance-running career but he's still a runner and his heart is with all runners of all distances and all speeds. In this book he tells about each of the 26 marathons that he ran and the lessons he learned from each one of them. These lessons that don't just relate to running but to life, all aspects of life and can be applied to each of us, even if we've never run a step in our lives.
Thanks to this book, I'm back to reading about running. I know I'll be checking out the biography about Meb, Run to Overcome: The Inspiring Story of an American Champion's Long-Distance Quest to Achieve a Big Dream.
Published March 19th 2019. Thank you to Crown Publishing and NetGalley for this ARC.
Meb's writing is so optimistic that it leaves you pumped up and ready to go when you put the book down. There are two parts of advice to this book, The runner's mindset and Lessons from the run that are applicable elsewhere. I found both these parts to be useful. Meb's meticulous planning and thinking before and after every race gives us a unique view into how an outlier mentally prepares for a big event. Although some lessons seem too broad, there are a few golden rules that I truly resonated with and have been a recurring theme from other books of similar nature. This is a must read for all runners out there. It would certainly define a good mental foundation to build your training plan. This book would also push you to think about how a lesson from each grueling race can be applied in other parts of your life.
What a treat! Meb's memory is astounding. I especially enjoyed reading how he and other elites would work off each other to either make moves or to sit back, and they would actually talk about those moves during a race up at the front.
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He didn’t talk about this a lot, but it was refreshing and honest to hear about pay and compensation. There were a few races where he wasn’t doing well, and he mentioned needing to place not only bc of his competitive nature but also to simply make money due to sponsor contracts!
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The biggest takeaway is that your dreams don’t have an expiration date. Meb raced competitively until the age of 42. 42!
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He didn’t talk about this a lot, but it was refreshing and honest to hear about pay and compensation. There were a few races where he wasn’t doing well, and he mentioned needing to place not only bc of his competitive nature but also to simply make money due to sponsor contracts!
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The biggest takeaway is that your dreams don’t have an expiration date. Meb raced competitively until the age of 42. 42!