Mile Markers: The 26.2 Most Important Reasons Why Women Run

Since this book is made up of Kristin Armstrong's blog posts it makes sense that some of the blog posts resonated with me more than others.The posts about how much she loves running with her friends and how running makes these relationships deeper and stronger really hit home with me. I totally understand that feeling. I also loved the posts about how as moms we are the biggest role models in our children's lives and if we never set goals, chase our dreams or share our passions they will never see our true selves or what we are capable of achieving.I did not enjoy the posts as much when she talked about how she's not a fast runner (a 3:35 marathon PR by the way). Speed is so relative and my best marathon time is almost 2 hours slower than hers. To me she is SUPER SPEEDY. I wanted to shout at her to stop putting herself down.Basically, this book is inspirational for women. I found many posts that will drive me to continue to improve in all areas of my life. I would recommend taking the ones that don't resonate with you with a grain of salt and just move past them.

This book was everything I expected, based on my faithful reading of Kristin Armstrong's Runner's World blogs. She is a master of the truth that the best way to connect with an audience is to find the shortest distance between your heart and your paper. Many of the book's vignettes made me laugh out loud, then cry a few pages later because of their poignancy. Her passion for running, and what it adds to her life, is palpable on each page. Kristin talks with such love about her running friends that you instantly transport into their group and love each of them through her eyes. Her faith reaffirms your faith and her strength, coupled with her honest frailties, will seem like a window to every woman's soul. It was so heartful, purposeful, and insightful that I remembered everything amazing that has happened during my "running" life, from meeting and falling in love with my husband to running at the Western States 100 training camp when I was newly pregnant (but did not know it). Her book did what I imagine she hoped for...it made me recommit to something that makes me who I am and celebrate the "I am" without apology or regret. This book was truly a gift and a pleasure.

Love, Love, Love this book...it's like reading daily devotionals.This is one of those books that I hated to finish. In case you didn't know, Kristin Armstrong (Not the Olympic cyclist) is a marathon runner, writer, yoga enthusiast, & mommy to 3 kids she had with Lance Armstrong. She's a great writer. She writes about her experiences in a column for Runner's World. I let my subscription run out years ago so it had been a while since I read anything of hers.The book is a compilation of her columns arranged by subjects, such as "Hills", "Perspective", "Passion", "Clarity", "Race Day", etc... For instance she includes some columns she wrote on how running puts things into perspective for her. How running "Hills" is much like "running hills" in life, which can sometime seem VERY HARD. I cannot say enough good things about this book. I recommend it to ALL women runners & non-runners. You might just lace up your shoes & get out there for your first run, enter your first race, or find a run club to join. Very inspirational & motivating for me as a runner & woman!It doesn't hurt that she's got a great sense of humor & her writing reminds me a little of Erma Bombeck..

If you are a runner, you will totally relate to this book! As a woman, I feel so connected and Kristin is an amazing writer!

Kristin is an amazing writer, and almost makes me feel guilty as a mother because I wasn't nearly as good a mother as she is. Maybe I was, but I can't write about my experience in a way that makes me look as good. I've always admired women who manage to make time to run while they are still actively mothering. I like the fact that each little story in this book is complete in itself, even with multiple stories in each chapter, so you can read a story if you only have a few minutes. I read this on my lunch hour at work and always end up with tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat. I wish I could meet Kristin and talk with her and listen to her and run with her!

I loved this book so much I sent it to one of my friends for her birthday! It was well written and extremely inspirational. I loved reading it before runs and it would make me so excited to get out there and kick some butt on the asphalt. Being a fellow Austinite, a mother and a female runner I could really connect to the author. Some of her words could span across genders, backgrounds, etc. My favorite quote "I am not a good runner because I am me; I'm a good me because I am a runner". I think any runner can truly relate to that. Especially coming from giving birth 4 months ago I truly feel like not just a better person but a better mother when I've logged some miles and it's a wonderful way to connect with myself, my husband and our baby boy. I really can't say enough great things about this book.

I started running about 3 years ago and progressed into running by first 1/2 marathon last year for a total of 4 so far. I was never really sure why I actually started running but once I did - I was hooked! I am a wife and mother of 3 teenage boys and I discovered that running was the first thing I've done for just me since we started our family. I find myself relating to so many things that Kristin states in her book; running is spiritual, a stress reliever, exhausting, some runs are great others are just plain horrible, my day is better when I run, etc.I already know a handful of other runners that I want to share this book with in hopes that it speaks to them as much as it did to me!

Read it more than once! Not a big Lance Armstrong fan, but... the ex wife wrote this well... easy to read. Good tips, and down to earth storyline makes this more motivating. Add to that the reality factor, and its a plus. Then, remember she runs for a living, and has had a not so average life, and that puts things in a new perspective. Still though, I have many books about running, and distance running, and next to Galloway's, this one is one of my favorites. Highly recommend, even if you don't plan to run that far.

I don't understand why anyone would give this less than 5 stars. I have only recently discovered the joy of running. I found this book warm, honest, inspirational. A note to a previous reviewer: this book is about Kristin Armstrong and her relationship with running, her children and her friends NOT her husband. It made me wish for a womens running group, to share my love of running in the company of other women. Since reading this book I have set one up.There is a lot of wisdom here. And if the writing is sometimes a little cheesy...well life could always use a little more cheese

Good book about female runners and running.Good price and well packaged and quick delivery.

Interesting read, some great quotes in each chapter, ie. on motherhood. But the girlfriend, ,cheesiness can be hard to swallow at times....she makes herself out to be bit like a martyr. And after the whole Armstrong debacle, her book left a bad taste in the mouth....as if she didnt know!! Hence have passed the book on.

Ich habe angefangen zu lesen und könnte nicht mehr aufhören! Ich finde die Idee super, die Kapitel mit den unterschiedlichen Themen zu gestalten. Allgemein finde ich ihre Idee super, dass sie nicht eine zusammenhängende Geschichte erzählt, sondern kleine Anekdoten aus ihrem Leben, die sehr inspirierend für mich waren/sind. Eine alleinerziehende Mutter von drei Kindern schafft es, so oft laufen zu gehen, sich an mehreren Marathon Laufen zu beteiligen, zu arbeiten und Zeit für Familie und Freunde zu haben. Das finde ich bewundernswert und zeigt mir, dass alles möglich ist, wenn man es nur genug will!

Not a big fan of the writing style.