Which I love, because it’s the best part of the book: This great look at the inner workings of a couple who adventures together, and who’s livelihood, to a great extent, depends on it. But they actually do a surprisingly good job of it, and it’s (unintentionally, I think) really funny in some places where Jenny will be saying one thing and explaining an argument, and in the next chapter, you really get an unfiltered take on it from Scott that reads like he hadn’t read what Jenny wrote before he put his thoughts down. A lot of memoirs like this are super-sanitized, so it’s refreshing to read such open language! It’s a fun experiment in cowritingĬo-writing is really freaking hard to do and have things flow smoothly, so I wasn’t sure how Scott and Jenny would pull it off.

Jenny talks about feeling unsafe with certain people at certain trailheads, Scott gets real about on-trail injuries and wanting to quit… They really don’t hold back, and it makes it a much more compelling read as a result. It’s full of semi-inside jokes, very casual/natural language, and no fears about telling it like it was. Unlike my normal reviews where I pull quotes and talk through the key concepts that I highlighted, since this one was a memoir versus something more how-to oriented, I figured I would make this review a bit less formal. I like a good memoir, but this one could have gone a couple different ways. I’m not going to lie, I didn’t really know what to expect. And in North, his second book, he and Jenny chronicle his attempt to set the FKT (fastest known time) on the Appalachian Trail. He has prominently appeared in two New York Times bestsellers, Born to Run and The 4-Hour Body.This month, we started the year with a bit of inspiration mixed with a bit of holy $hit I never want to do that by reading North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail by Scott Jurek and Jenny Jurek. Scott is an ultrarunner who’s run pretty much every race there is to win. Scott Jurek is a world-renowned ultramarathon champion who trains and races on a vegan diet. More info about Scott Jurek's Fleet Feet San Francisco event at The run will end back at the store in time for Scott’s talk, Q&A and signing to start at 8:00 pm. Group run will start at 7:00 pm from Fleet Feet. In Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness ($26.00), Jurek opens up about his life and career - as an elite ultrarunner and a vegan - and inspires athletes at every level.

And yet, perhaps even more impressive than his extensive list of race victories and course records is the fact that he achieves these astonishing accomplishments of endurance on an entirely plant-based diet. For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force - and darling - in the grueling and growing sport of ultrarunning.

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