Read this after hearing Rachel Toor on Another Mother Runner podcast and about her again through a favorite company of mine, Skirt Sports. She sounded like a cool lady and I wanted to read her book.

I enjoyed her writing about the experience of learning how to run. I found some of the exposition about running tedious but that's because I've been running for a dozen years, non-runners would need to exposition, I think.

The information about Walter the Rat was both interesting and strange. I understand how it contributed to the story of Alice but I still found it a bit irritating. Must be my anti-rat bias!

The lessons about learning to be wrong and choosing a college wisely are good lessons as is the one about paying more attention to the people you love although delivered in a somewhat heavy handed manner.

Overall it was enjoyable but not spectacular. I might share it with my friend's daughter who recently started to run cross country in high school.

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