March 29, 2013  

Top 10 Reasons ‘All-In’ Runners Must Read “Born To Run”

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A Review of Born To Run

by Patrick Reed

I am nearly finished with my second consecutive listening to Christopher McDougall’s masterful running “must read” Born To Run. And I am loving it as much the second time around as I did upon first listening. Fellow mountain runners over here on the central coast of California who hear me suddenly burst out laughing just as I round the crest of the long haul up Madonna Mountain must be scratching their heads. How can he be laughing while he’s still plugging up the mountain? My excuse, McDougall’s narration of yet another one of “Barefoot Ted’s” beatnik discourses on art or McDougall’s recounting of Ultra prodigies Jen and Billy’s insane antics… And one late morning, as I was coursing around my favorite mountain for the third time before beginning my final ascent to its summit, my expression was an aghast…

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On the morning of Dec 21,2010, I woke up not feeling so good. The next thing I knew I was at the Ottawa General Hospital Emergency Room thinking I was having a heart attack. Luckily it was not a heart attack but a chest virus. This event scared me enough to get serious about my health. In the past two years, I have lost 80 lbs, started running races and completed my first half marathon. Though I did not reach my goal of losing 100lbs in two years, I am very happy at my progress so far. I am sure I would have reach my goal if it had not been for a few health challenges in 2012 such as emergency gallbladder surgery followed by a nasty post op infection. At one point we thought the infection was all cleared up but it was not and it went deep. That led to yet another health scare where my doctors were checking to see if I had ALS, MS, Huntington’s or other muscle diseases. It turned out to be a continuation of the post op infection. All this stopped me from training at a level that would have helped me reach my goal. I guess it is true, that what does not kill us, will only make us stronger. I am on the mend now and things are slowly getting back to normal, well as normal as I will ever be. Now it is time to get focused again on my health goals. When I started on this journey, my ultimate goal was to complete the IRONMAN in Kona, Hawaii. That is still a long-term goal that I want to complete by 2015, in the short term I plan to complete IRONMAN Miami 2013. Another goal for the coming year, is not only to complete losing the 100lbs that I started but also to lose another 20lbs on top on that with a goal of being 180lbs by the time I do IRONMAN Miami. Follow me on my journey.

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