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    My Year of Running Dangerously
    My Year of Running Dangerously
    My Year of Running Dangerously
    Audiobook6 hours

    My Year of Running Dangerously

    Written by Tom Foreman

    Narrated by Tom Foreman

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    About this audiobook

    As a journalist whose career spans three decades, CNN correspondent Tom Foreman has reported from the heart of war zones, riots, and natural disasters. He has interviewed serial killers and been in the line of fire. But the most terrifying moment of his life didn't occur on the job-it occurred at home, when his eighteen-year-old daughter asked, "How would you feel about running a marathon with me?"

    My Year of Running Dangerously is Foreman's journey through four half-marathons, three marathons, and one fifty-five-mile race. What started as an innocent request from his daughter quickly turned into a rekindled passion for long-distance running-for the training, the camaraderie, the defeats, and the victories. Told with honesty and humor, Foreman's account captures the universal fears of aging and failure alongside the hard-won moments of triumph, tenacity, and going further than you ever thought possible.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 6, 2015
    ISBN9781494581909
    My Year of Running Dangerously

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    • 5/5
      Witty and engaging. Found myself chuckling out loud as I logged my running miles.
    • 5/5
      One of the most entertaining running books that I've read. Really enjoyed it!!
    • 5/5
      Awesome book. Great story of his return to running after a long break and the struggles and triumphs that come with truly challenging ourselves
    • 4/5
      Well written and well read but a bit sappy in places. Too many repeated exaltations about how awesome his daughters are. Some parts were really funny. A good read but not great.
    • 5/5
      Listening to the audio, READ by Tom Foreman, was absolutely terrific!! I know next to nothing about running except for the runners going past where I live. Tom gives you himself---all the way through this incredible experience of what to most of us seems like an overwhelming undertaking, which he extended beyond the marathon with his daughter! Yes, he had always run, but his descriptions of his efforts to just keep going, "one foot in front of the other," made me gasp, laugh out loud, and be just plain amazed. I think listening to this was probably much more rewarding than reading his book simply because he was right there, expressing exactly how he felt all the way along and you could just plain feel it in his voice.
    • 4/5
      Foreman chronicles his training and running with one of his daughters for half-marathons and marathons. He goes on to train for and run an ultramarathon, which were the chapters I found the most interesting with the challenges he faced in training and during the race. An enjoyable, easy to read book. His passion for running, life and family comes through clearly. Current long-distance runners will identify with the rewards and setbacks Foreman has during his training and racing. Those runners thinking of their first marathon or ultra race may find the inspiration to keep training.
    • 5/5
      Very enjoyable book, perhaps especially to athletes, and those addicted to endurance sports, as this book is about just that: an 18-year old daughter asks her dad if he'd like to train for a marathon with her, which he does, and then goes on to train for and run an ultra marathon, and to write about it. I "read" it via Aubible.com, despite my aversion to books read by their authors. In this case, the author/narrator does a remarkable job (perhaps because the author, in his day job, is a broadcast journalist). Inspiring, in parts laugh-out-loud funny, and touching, particularly the father-daughter stuff...I wanted to give 4-1/2 stars, but couldn't... anyway, very enjoyable...