The book by Scott Jurek "Eat and Run" (Eat&Run) did not come to me by chance. After reading "Born to Run", in which this runner is one of the main characters, I became interested in his career and began to dig amazon.com . I dug up this book. It is worth saying that I personally am extremely sympathetic to a long run. Yes, I am not physically ready to run more than 20...30 km, but I dream of a marathon, an ultramarathon. Why? I like to be alone, but the modern world and my occupation in it does not allow this. I like to think, but surrounded by gadgets and people with gadgets, I am almost unable to disconnect. I love meditation, although I don't know how to do it. And I also love sports, but I literally despise team sports for the fact that you cannot guarantee 100% victory, even if you have done everything you could by 200%. And it so happened that everything came together in the run! I began to dig into what pushes people obsessed with running, the most reckless of which are ultramarathoners — those who run any distance greater than a marathon — ≈42km.
It's worth saying that I'm a big fan of experimenting with food. Only thanks to the Dukan diet, I lost 8 kg in a week and kept the weight with ease. Thanks to the rejection of sweets, processed food and animal fats and meat (most likely temporarily, but for now it's an experience) I continue to lose weight: 85... 77... 75... 72 today and, perhaps, the cherished 68 kg, which are most effective for me and my chosen sport.
The book is nothing more than the story of the legendary ultramarathoner Scott Jurek about himself. Childhood, dad is a former military man, mom is sick with Alzheimer's, the first athletics classes, the first 50 km, the first victories at crazy distances Badwater, Western States 100, Leadville Trail 100, Spartathlon and many others. Here Scott reflects on why he runs, why he spent 25 years of his life on an unpopular and not spectacular ultramarathon, and not on something more popular and monetary.
There are also two types of tie-ins in the book. The first is the advice that Cattle shares with runners, readers of the book (here is one of them in our translation). Believe me, it's worth buying this book just for them.
The second type of tie—ins are vegetarian recipes of Cattle. It so happened that he talks a lot about nutrition and how he became a committed vegetarian. Interesting are his stories of how he got injured or lost the race, thought about why it happened and always considered problems with nutrition in the first place. Thanks to him, you understand that it is nutrition (even if not vegetarianism) that is the main thing to start with. And when a person who has run so much, so successfully and effectively shares recipes (very detailed) with you… how can it be missed at all?
I highly recommend reading to people who are already running. Those who are looking for more, but can't find it. Those who are just looking for the story of a great athlete and are interested in what motivates these ultra-humans.
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