Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running Language Arts Teaching Materials

Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running Language Arts Teaching MaterialsRachel 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 Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runners life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why. A chronicle of Toors relationship with the sport of

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vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself

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