The Long Run: A Memoir of Loss and Life in Motion Audiobook (Free)

An unlikely marathoner finds her method through grief and in to the untold history of women and jogging.

Thirty-year-old Catriona Menzies-Pike described herself in many ways: voracious reader, pub crawler, feminist, backpacker, and, since her parents’ fatalities a decade earlier, orphan. ‘Runner’ was nowhere close to the list. However when she began training for a fifty percent marathon on the whim, she discovered herself an instantaneous convert. Soon she realized that running, ‘a pace suitable for the precarious labor of memory,’ was about The Long Run: A Memoir of Reduction and Lifestyle in Motion assisting her to grieve the loss of her parents in ways that she had been, for ten messy years, working away from.

As Catriona excavates her very own past, she also grows curious about additional women drawn to running. What she finds is a history of repression and denial-running was considered to endanger childbearing, and as past due as 1967 the organizer of the Boston Marathon attempted to drag a female off the program, telling her to ‘get the hell out of my race’-but also of incredible courage and achievement. As she brings alive the tales of pioneering athletes and analyzes the physique of the girl runner in pop culture, literature, and misconception, she involves the center of why she’s running, and why anybody do.