Running

Helpful for a beginner runner. I've been reading a lot about running, most of it online, and this book takes a sensible and fun approach – not a hardcore, athletic, faster-faster-faster approach. The focus is on enjoying running for the fun of it and staying healthy and injury-free.

I teared up reading some of the testimonials – something about the strength that people manage to find within themselves to run and the unconditional support of the crowd and other runners gets me all emotional. Planning to run my first race in a week, and I'll be surprised if I don't cry.

Recommended to me by a friend after she learned I was doing the Couch to 5K program to try to turn myself into a runner.

There's a lot of info here, and I didn't read all of it - some of the sections, like the one on running a marathon, don't apply to me (for now, at least), and some of them, like women's issues when running, never will. But what I read was really informative, really helpful, and really encouraging. Definitely recommended for anyone who wants to run.