Let Your Mind Run A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

A great look into what good self-talk looks like while you're out running and how a positive attitude can make all the difference.

Great book! Read it along with one of my cross country athletes, and I just hope she gains even half as much out of it as I did.

bookclub4m psychology nonfiction. A nice sideways look into sport psychology through the lens of a high performing US womens long distance runner. Kastor walks us through all the mental tools and perspectives she used to get back into running after a disappointing university career. Kastor goes on to attend 3 Olympics running track and marathons and breaks several US records in the marathon and the half marathon. (Reading about running suits me more than actually running)

I listened to this audio book and loved it! I've been struggling with a foot injury that has sidelined my competitive running for a (frustrating!!) 8+ months. I began to look forward to my grueling pool runs and trainer rides, knowing I'd be able to listen to Deena's motivational story.

Of course being a true runnerd, I was engrossed by all the training details and race replays. But what made this book truly wonderful is in the title: the way that Deena has been able to continually improve and grow through her career through practices of mindfulness and positivity. Never pedantic, Deena walks (runs?) us through her incredible journey as one of the most accomplished American distance runners of all time and how she used positivity as a means to do that. There are invaluable lessons in her for everyone, runners and non-runners alike (but especially runners). I've already been incorporating a lot of her tactics in my life and plan to continue. Really an inspiration and I so recommend it. You can't walk away from this feeling anything but positive!

Well-written, and much more interesting and inspirational than I expected, given that it's about elite running and thus could have been totally inaccessible to, well, those of us who are not...