Run Oregon Bookshelf: Feel-Good Fitness by Alysia Montaño
If you’re already reading Run Oregon, chances are you already have some interest in running or walking, but how would you rate your fitness? Are you out of service after [...]
books about running
Guest Post: Four Key Words for Successful Distance Racing
The following has been submitted by Run Oregon reader, Brian James Siddons – Runner, Writer, Poet. We’ve all been there on race day. Plans made, gun goes off and instantly [...]
Run Oregon Bookshelf: Running is my Therapy
When a book on the shelf matches one of your sayings, well obviously it needs to be bought, read, and written about. And this quick, informative read did not disappoint [...]
Run Oregon Bookshelf: Running Home
https://www.watchungbooksellers.com/sites/watchungbooksellers.com/files/runninghomekatiearnold.jpg Although I cannot say that I wasn’t warned going into this book about the emotions involved, I still had to set it aside a few times to give myself [...]
Run Oregon Bookshelf: Becoming Boston Strong
I’m a self-proclaimed nerd and runner, so when a book about running the Boston Marathon comes out, it practically clicks itself into my cart on Amazon. Becoming Boston Strong is [...]
Run Oregon Bookshelf: North by Scott Jurek, with Jenny Jurek
In February 2010, after a “come to Jesus” moment with the scale late one night, I joined a gym and a few months later participated in my first 5K: the [...]
Run With & Meet the Author of Running Out, Dave Essinger – March 28
If you enjoy checking out Run Oregon’s bookshelf, surely you remember our review of the book Running Out, a novel set in the Canadian wilderness where an experienced ultrarunner is [...]
Run Oregon Bookshelf: 26 Marathons by Meb Keflezighi
If you run marathons–especially if you’re new to the distance–you should definitely read the book 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career. [...]
Run Oregon Bookshelf: Life is a Marathon by Matt Fitzgerald
This is a book about a runner, or rather, a runner’s wife. This is also a book about mental health and mental illness, relationships, and love. Life is a Marathon: [...]
Run Oregon Bookshelf: The Incomplete Book of Running by Peter Sagal
Peter Sagal brings all the wit from his NPR show Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me and weaves that into the personal meaning running brings to many in his new book, [...]