Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

She climbed and protected so we all could enjoy

Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains by Anita Yasuda and Yuko Shimizu

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I am not a sports person. I am not an outdoors person. I am not a hiking person. And I am certainly not a mountain climbing person. I am a person who will read a book outside (but it’s a porch and there better be running water/bathroom and cool drinks nearby). And I am a person who will read a book about someone who is an outdoors, sporty, mountain climbing person. And  Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains by Anita […]

What You Need in a Mountain Hike Guide

Day Hiking in the North Georgia Mountains by Jim Parham

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Minor irony: I ended up getting two local trail/hiking guides at the bookstore, and it turns out the impulse grab (on sale) one was the more useful. Go figure. So, now for Day Hiking the North Georgia Mountains. This book is as the title suggests a description and guide for the various hiking trails in the norther third or so in the state of Georgia. I need this for seeing how much trouble I’m getting myself into for a trail race in soCA in about […]

Study to Prepare for the Dumb but Hopefully Fun Thing

Trail Running From Start to Finish; Runner's World Complete Guide to Trail Running; The Ultimate Guide to Trail Running by Graeme HIlditch; Dagney Scott Barrios; Adam W Chase and Nancy Hobbs

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So I might have done something a little dumb and signed up for a mountain trail run somewhere I’ll be in about 6 months for work; why might this be dumb? Because I don’t live near mountains or significant trails to train on. Also, I don’t actually do much trail running; I’m more of a road/sidewalk runner. The 25k distance doesn’t bother me, but the first few miles going about 1,000 feet almost straight up? That makes me nervous. So what do I do? Get […]

Running Writer Contemplates Stuff

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

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Bingo 2: Asia & Oceania I’ve read a few of Haruki Murakami’s novels (in translation; I don’t read Japanese); I enjoyed them but they’re definitely something you need to be in the right mood for. His non-fiction What I Talk About When I Talk About Running sounds exactly like the kind of guy who would write some of those stories, at least style-wise. Murakami is a long-time distance runner as the title suggests, and basically he’s turned bits of his running journal into a nine […]

Sometimes the Basics Have Promise

The No Meat Athlete Cookbook by Matt Frazier, Stepfanie Romine

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Happy end of semester impulse buy to me (university English teacher here). I have to admit I wasn’t expecting much from The No Meat Athlete Cookbook, since my scan in the bookstore revealed a pretty generic set of recipes, but I went ahead and bought it because it included a sweet red bean recipe and I’ve been wanting something like that (could I have gone internet digging, sure, but that’s a bother), as well as some actually palatable looking diy sports drink options. Most of […]

Batman the B!tch and other Running Stories and Rules

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

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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). […]



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