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JShill224

109 posts since
Jul 9, 2007

May 11, 2007 5:29 AM

What do runners like to read?

What are you currently reading?

Me ... David Nevin's "Dream West." Historical fiction about exploring and mapping the Great American West in the 1800s.

yo-sal

260 posts since
Jul 9, 2007

1. May 11, 2007 5:59 AM

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anything relating to running or sports? I read Running Times, Bicycling, Outside magazines. I don't bike anymore but i like the style and i have a crush on the editor, Steve Madden, I hate to admit.

Off the shelf, I'm reading "Leading Change" which is about business leadership - it's polar opposite to what i do for a paycheck, but i've found that, like fractal art, concepts that work on a large scale can also be useful on a small scale, that is, in my life too.

I like those "out west' books from long ago - before cameras and electric lights. makes you think...

Joe_H1

1,074 posts since
Jul 9, 2007

2. May 11, 2007 6:23 AM

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where the wild things are and spiderman comic books for my 4 yr old

inside triathlon magazine

DaveVause

620 posts since
Jul 9, 2007

3. May 11, 2007 11:15 AM

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[i]Runner's World
Running Times
Marathon and Beyond[/i]

Last book (just so I'm not too focused on one thing) [i]Civilization and Its Discontents[/i] by Freud.

All to counter-balance being a technical professional.

Dave Vause
08 MC Historic Half
07 Frederick Marathon
05, 06 MCM
blog: //community.active.com/blogs/DaveVause
personal web site: www.vause.name

yo-sal

260 posts since
Jul 9, 2007

4. May 11, 2007 11:58 AM

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Civilization and Its Discontents by Freud - ?????

What is that about? For heavy reading, what do you read?

JShill224

109 posts since
Jul 9, 2007

5. May 11, 2007 12:02 PM

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Man ... that about covers it ... Spiderman to Freud.

irungrl

149 posts since
Jul 3, 2007

6. May 11, 2007 1:04 PM

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Runner's World
Fitness

Gossip magazines on the beach

and am re reading "Travels With my Aunt" by Graham Greene.

beerpace

120 posts since
Jul 9, 2007

7. May 11, 2007 4:54 PM

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Not only can I not read in a moving car, I can't read while running either. How do you guys do it?

smo5246

204 posts since
Jul 9, 2007

8. May 12, 2007 8:35 PM

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Like most runners, I read Runner's World and Running Times. I also subscribe to National Geographic and Consumer's Reports Money Advisor. I am a financal kind of guy, so I like books like "Grow Rich Slowly", "The Grangard Method", and stock market stuff. I just finished Lee Iococca's "Where Have All The Leaders Gone", which I enjoyed. One of the things I learned from that book, among others, is that Yocco's resturant in the Allentown area originated from his Father's hot dog business and Yocca is Pa. Dutch for Iococca.

Carolcrc

110 posts since
Jul 9, 2007

9. May 13, 2007 12:57 PM

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Some of us cheat and use books on tape while running. Personally I read Runner's World and nearly any inspirational running book I can get my hands on - just finished Bowerman and the Men of Oregon.

Recreational reading is anything from sci-fi, fantasy, historical adventure, and Jane Austen.

yo-sal

260 posts since
Jul 9, 2007

10. May 13, 2007 6:10 PM

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I like hot dogs.

JShill224

109 posts since
Jul 9, 2007

11. May 14, 2007 5:30 AM

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We all benefited from our father's hot dog business.

(sorry if that offended anyone)

Tapes, DVDs, Cliff Notes, Reader's Digest, etc. do not count as reading ... they simply do not capture the whole experience ... see, feel, smell ... close your eyes - you can smell that library book , can't you?
That author poured his heart out for you to experience his/her creative work ... not "multi-task" on a treadmill.

You don't watch TV during a romantic dinner, do you?

I need more coffee.

DaveVause

620 posts since
Jul 9, 2007

12. May 14, 2007 9:48 AM

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Yo,

Sorry it took so long to reply. The book's Freud's view oh the relationship between the individual and his/her society or civilization.

Dave Vause
08 MC Historic Half
07 Frederick Marathon
05, 06 MCM
blog: //community.active.com/blogs/DaveVause
personal web site: www.vause.name

JShill224

109 posts since
Jul 9, 2007

13. May 14, 2007 10:24 AM

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Dave ... I suppose you read Plato's "Republic" to relax?
Or Descartes' theories ... "I think, therefore I am."

DaveVause

620 posts since
Jul 9, 2007

14. May 14, 2007 10:46 AM

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In my 20s.

Actually, never The Republic, but most of the other dialogs. They are a good example of critical thinking.

Descartes, too, but, after engineering school, I don't find the Rationalists so compelling.

Dave Vause
08 MC Historic Half
07 Frederick Marathon
05, 06 MCM
blog: //community.active.com/blogs/DaveVause
personal web site: www.vause.name

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