It’s a great book that can take something you know intimately and make you rethink the whole thing. Especially something as fundamental and simple as putting one foot in front of the other. That’s because the majority of these characters––and they’re characters in every sense of the word-–are batshit crazy. So if you’re interested in seeing how we evolved as runners, how we fucked it up by wearing shoes, and how we fuck it up even more by failing to find joy in everything, even 100 mile races into the arms of the beast named Exhaustion, then this book is for you. A-
