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[Freeman's] storytelling, along with her friend Hazel Meyer’s illustrations, chronicles Freeman’s lifelong relationship with running and illuminates the 'unexpected moments of connection and joy that we runners feel when we cover some distance together.'\" -- Becky Wade * Runners World *\u003cbr\u003e\"I found Lindsay A. Freedman’s little queer book \u003ci\u003eRunning \u003c\/i\u003eabsolutely delightful and surprisingly validating, as I think many queer sportspersons will. In particular, Freedman talks about how running as a sport of individualism and triumph over one’s own fears or limitations has both mirrored and supported her journey in coming out as queer in ways that made me go 'Oh yes, that.'\" -- S. Bear Bergman * Xtra *\u003cbr\u003e\"What is beautiful throughout \u003ci\u003eRunning\u003c\/i\u003e is the slow and tender movements through what it means to have a body, and what that body means in all the spaces in which it exists. . . . I hope queer people with an interest, active or passive, in running pick this book up, read through, and consider their own relationships to themselves and to a sport that is so easily made all too simple.\" -- Niko Stratis * Autostraddle *\u003cbr\u003e\"More poetic than practical, but intensely vivid and personal, \u003ci\u003eRunning\u003c\/i\u003e bounces from pop-culture analysis to academic inquiry, from a catalogue of injuries (including those from a devastating incident in which a vehicle hit her) to an exploration of the elusive 'runner's high.' . . . \u003ci\u003eRunning\u003c\/i\u003e is a worthwhile companion for people who want to be either—or both.\" -- Katie Noah Gibson * Shelf Awareness *\u003cbr\u003e“Freeman serves fresh thinking as she applies the speculative energy of queer theory to her own lifelong running journey.” -- Knox Robinson * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRunning\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a study of the sport—it’s a fearless love letter to the core of what it means to be a runner. . . . Part-memoir, part-handbook, and part-critical theory, untangling identity, the body, queerness, feminism, friendships, the unknown, failure, pain, control, success, and beyond; the full spectrum of what it means to lace up our running shoes to return to a complicated, duplicitous, and ever-changing sport.\" -- Ellie Jackson * Off *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e Stride—Form—Cadence—Pace  14\u003cbr\u003e On the Subversive Nature of This Handbook  17\u003cbr\u003e A Note on “Just Do It”  30\u003cbr\u003e Leaving It All on the Track  33\u003cbr\u003e Running Is a Contact Sport  37\u003cbr\u003e Running after Olympians  42\u003cbr\u003e Running Is Your Life  56\u003cbr\u003e Speed Play  58\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePersonal Best\u003c\/i\u003e  61\u003cbr\u003e In Training for the Boston Marathon  70\u003cbr\u003e Running the Risk Of  84\u003cbr\u003e Courage, or The Paris Marathon  87\u003cbr\u003e Runner’s High  91\u003cbr\u003e Let’s Let Our Running Be Real  97\u003cbr\u003e On Hitting the Wall and Writer’s Block  101\u003cbr\u003e Repetitive Stress  105\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Cross-Training  112\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Running to Music  114\u003cbr\u003e Big Gay 10K  117\u003cbr\u003e This One’s for the Rabbits, the Also-Rans, and the Dreamers  120\u003cbr\u003e Loops—Practice—Repetition—Ritual  126\u003cbr\u003e Cooldown and Stretching  131\u003cbr\u003e Notes  135\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography: \u003ci\u003eThings I Thought With, Things I Ran With\u003c\/i\u003e  145","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867288383831,"sku":"9781478019657","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478019657.jpg?v=1722282614"},{"product_id":"training-for-climbing-9781493017614","title":"Training for Climbing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncrease your strength, power, skill, and focus to maximize your climbing performance. 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