The Incomplete Book of Running Audiobook (Free)

Peter Sagal, the host of NPR’s Wait around Wait…Don’t Inform Me! and a favorite columnist for Runner’s Globe, stocks “commentary and representation about running having a deeply experienced personal tale, this book is winning, intelligent, honest, and influencing. Whether you certainly are a runner or not, it’ll move you” (Susan Orlean).

Within the verge of turning forty, Peter Sagal—brainiac Harvard grad, short bald Jew with a disposition towards heft, and a sedentary star of public radio—started running seriously. And much to his about The Imperfect Book of Working own shock, he kept going, faster and additional, running fourteen marathons and logging tens of thousands of kilometers on streets, sidewalks, paths, and trails all around the United States as well as the world, including the 2013 Boston Marathon, where he crossed the final line moments before the bombings.

In The Incomplete Book of Running, Sagal reflects in the trails, tracks, and routes he’s traveled, in the humorous absurdity of running charity races in his underwear—in St. Louis, in Feb—or attempting to “quiet his colon” on operates around his community—to the knowledge of running as a guide to visually impaired runners, and the triumphant post-bombing operating of the Boston Marathon in 2014. With humor and humanity, Sagal also writes about the emotional experience of working, body image, the similarities between endurance sports and sadomasochism, the legacy of operating as passed down from parent to child, as well as the unusual but incredible bonds developed between strangers and close friends. The result is usually “a brilliant publication about running…What Peter operates toward is strength, understanding, endurance, approval, faith, hope, and charity” (P.J. O’Rourke).