born to run

Batman the B!tch and other Running Stories and Rules

Born to Run 2: The Ultimate Training Guide by Christopher McDugall, Eric Orton

March 4, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I got Born to Run 2 on sale on a whim and I’m glad I didn’t pay full price. This book gets judgey and inflexible; it does have some good looking recommendations for individual activities for training, and recipes for long run pre/post/mid run nutrition. The book is a running guide book and it’s set up to follow a core group of people who run and their journeys to find a way to do so that works (naturally it’s the trainers who wrote/inspired the book’s). […]

“We gotta get out while we’re young, ’cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run” (double Bingo)

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

September 24, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

#CBR12 Bingo: Music Official book description: In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl’s halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That’s how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid […]

Tramps like us/ Baby we were…

June 28, 2017 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

It should be no surprise that one of the most prolific singer-songwriters of any generation wrote a phenomenal memoir- if you can light a spark in people in 5 minutes then 500 pages will set them on fire. I listened to the audiobook, read by Springsteen, and my only critique is many of the tracks are so long; at one point a disk kept skipping and I couldn’t take it out to clean it without having to start over literally thirty minutes from where I left off. I was […]

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