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Biography & Autobiography.
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HTML: As the 2008 recession hit, Jen quickly found herself with a newly purchased home, a fading freelance business and an alcoholic boyfriend. To avoid slipping into an even deeper depression, she took to the streets. What started as a silly assignment (running and reporting on a 5k) soon became an obsession (running 50+ miles a week training for marathons). Running gave Jen focus, discipline, and a way to block out negativity; it gave her the confidence that her relationships with men never had; it gave her hope and a way forward. Over the course of a few short years and hundreds of miles, Jen fell in love with running, and in doing so, found a way to fall out of love with the wrong kind of men and back in love with herself. Running: A Love Story chronicles Jen's inspiring transformation. Often witty and always thoughtful, Running: A Love Story aims to examine running from a repeatedly overlooked vantage point??that of a woman shuffling in the in the middle of the pack, who runs not for medals but for something more. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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But now she is a runner, one with a regular column in Runner’s World who has also written freelance newspaper pieces about the running experience. Jen Miller discovered running when she needed it most – and that brings us back to the book’s subtitle: “A Love Story.” As it turns out, the love interest referred to in the subtitle is not limited to the sport of running because the book also recounts each of the failed “love stories” that Miller endured while discovering all the positive things about herself that running was simultaneously teaching her.
Jen Miller is not a quitter, and that is usually a good thing. But when it comes to sticking with failed love affairs long past their sell-by dates, it can be a really bad thing. Now combine that stubbornness with Miller’s tendency to bring precisely the wrong type of man into her life over and over again, and you have all the makings of a browbeaten woman who gives and gives and gives in a relationship until she hardly recognizes herself. That’s where running came in for Miller: she badly needed a way to recreate her self-image into a positive one, and almost despite herself, running did that for her.
Very few beginning runners enjoy the sport enough at first to envision it ever becoming an important part of their lives. But if they stay with it long enough to get past the initial muscle pain and breathlessness they face – and if they don’t suffer the kind of injury that often serves as an excuse to give up the whole idea of ever running again – that is often what happens. And it happened for Miller, who can now claim five marathons (and numerous races of lesser distances) for the ten years during which she has enjoyed “the life changing sport” of running.
Running: A Love Story is one woman’s story; it is not a running manual or a book about the more spiritual aspects of long-distance running such as the much vaunted “runner’s high.” It is simply the story of a woman who changed from someone with a poor self-image - and a crushing willingness to go along to get along - into the self-confident, strong woman that was always hidden deep inside her. For Jen Miller, the real running journey she’s been on for the past decade is one of self-discovery, not one measured in miles.
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