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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Menzies-Pike, Catriona.     Subjects     Menzies-Pike, Catriona.     Women runners -- Australia -- Biography.     Runners (Sports) -- Australia -- Biography.     Running -- Health aspects.     Running -- United States -- History.     Marathon running -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Menzies-Pike, Catriona.       by title:      The long run : a mem...       by call number:      796.42092 M551L     Search the Web     Menzies-Pike, Catriona.     Menzies-Pike, Catriona.     Women runners -- Australia -- Biography.     Runners (Sports) -- Australia -- Biography.     Running -- Health aspects.     Running -- United States -- History.     Marathon running -- Biography.       MARC Display

The long run : a memoir of loss and life in motion / Catriona Menzies-Pike. by Menzies-Pike, Catriona. Call #: 796.42092 M551L Subjects Menzies-Pike, Catriona.   Women runners -- Australia -- Biography.   Runners (Sports) -- Australia -- Biography.   Running -- Health aspects.   Running -- United States -- History.   Marathon running -- Biography. ISBN:  9781524759445 (hc.) Edition:  First American edition. Description:  244 pages ; 22 cm. Notes:  Originally published in Australia in 2016. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-241). Contents:  Making a Scene -- On the Treadmill -- Born to Run -- Running Like a Girl -- On the Road -- Telling tales -- Look at Her Go -- Rejoice, We Conquer! -- Plan B -- Over the Line -- A One-Sentence Success Story -- Hitting the Wall -- Conclusion: Stories We Tell. Summary:  "An unlikely convert to distance running finds her way through grief and into the untold history of women and running. Thirty-year-old Catriona Menzies-Pike defined herself in many ways: voracious reader, pub crawler, feminist, backpacker, and, since her parents' deaths a decade earlier, orphan. "Runner" was nowhere near the list. Yet when she began training for a half marathon on a whim, she found herself an instant convert. Soon she realized that running, "a pace suited to the precarious labor of memory," was helping her to grieve the loss of her parents in ways that she had been, for ten messy years, running away from. As Catriona excavates her own past, she also grows curious about other women drawn to running. What she finds is a history of repression and denial--running was thought to endanger childbearing, and as late as 1967 the organizer of the Boston Marathon tried to drag a woman off the course, telling her to "get the hell out of my race"--But also of incredible courage and achievement. As she brings to life the stories of pioneering athletes and analyzes the figure of the woman runner in pop culture, literature, and myth, she comes to the heart of why she's running, and why any of us do. Catriona Menzies-Pike is the editor of the Sydney Review of Books"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.42092 M551L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Bedford Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.42092 M551L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.42092 M551L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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