Running Books + Boston Strong!

Can you imagine running 26.2 miles in two hours and eight minutes? I'm speechless.  Congratulations to the runners, winners, Boston, everyone.
In honor of runners everywhere I want to share one of my favorite running books with you, a book I might reread this summer as I shift back into a training mindset.
Ultra Marathon Man is a book I read several years ago when I first thought I might run an ultra. Whenever I'm exhausted after a long day, often before I lace up my shoes, I think of the midnight training run described in this book, when Dean Karnezes 'slept while running'.  I remember reading this book in a few days, I could not put it down!
Synopsis: Ultrarunning legend Dean Karnazes has run 262 miles-the equivalent of ten marathons-without rest. He has run over mountains, across Death Valley, and to the South Pole-and is probably the first person to eat an entire pizza while running. With an insight, candor, and humor rarely seen in sports memoirs, Ultramarathon Man has inspired tens of thousands of people-nonrunners and runners alike-to push themselves beyond their comfort zones.
Ultramarathon Man answers the questions Karnazes is continually asked:
Why do you do it? How do you do it? Are you insane?
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I have been binge listening to Another Mother Runner, a running podcast that's both inspiring and informative.  These gals really know what they are talking about and I'm considering their marathon training plan from the book Train like a Mother.
Synopsis: This orange book is exactly what you need to get across any finish line from a 5K to a marathon, complete with nine training plans (a beginner-level Finish It plan and a more challenging Own It plan for 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon, plus a plan for injured runners). It speaks to you in the same witty, conversational tone as our first book, Run Like a Mother, covering everything from nutrition and injury prevention to setting race goals. In the back of the book is an Another Mother Runner dictionary, complete with definitions to terms like, "barnacle buster," "puke pace," and "slaying the dragon."
I'm training for the NYC marathon, and several other runs this summer/fall.  {whoop}
111 days have passed in 2014
Miles logged in 2014: 728... that's 1,682,837 steps!