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Footnotes

How Running Makes Us Human

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Running is not just a sport. It reconnects us to our bodies and the places in which we live, breaking down our increasingly structured and demanding lives. It allows us to feel the world beneath our feet, lifts the spirit, allows our minds out to play and helps us to slip away from the demands of the modern world.

When Vybarr Cregan-Reid set out to discover why running meant so much to so many, he began a journey which would take him out to tread London’s cobbled streets, climbing to sites that have seen a millennium of hangings, and down the crumbling alleyways of Ruskin's Venice.

Footnotes transports you to the clifftops of Hardy's Dorset, the deserted shorelines of Seattle, the giant redwood forests of California, and the world’s most advanced running laboratories and research centres, using debates in literature, philosophy and biology to explore that simple human desire to run.

Liberating and inspiring, this book reminds us why feeling the earth beneath our feet is a necessary and healing part of our lives.

©2017 Vybarr Cregan-Reid (P)2018 Audible, Ltd Hygiene & Healthy Living Running & Jogging
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This book managed to capture almost everything I feel about running and movement in a style that was enjoyable, educational and inspiring. Needless to say, I listened to it whilst running.

A brilliant listen

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I really enjoyed this audiobook. Very insightful, thought provoking and in parts laugh out loud funny. Highly recommended

More than just running...

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Fun and informative read. I'm not a runner, but I am inspired to give it a go now.

Really enjoyed this book. It's fun and informative

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I loved every piece of this book. Some have criticised it for being a creed on barefoot running. It isn't. Cregan-Reid talks about barefoot running for sure, and why not, he does some of his running unshod, but it's hardly hardcore on the topic. But what it is, is a soaring paean to the joys of running - anywhere, in any way and in any footwear. He employs a rich array of scientists and literary interlocutors to weave together a beautiful narrative flow that I enjoyed enormously as a I trudged the byways of Berkshire. Had I not been running while listening, I would have been yearning to. I just wish it had been an hour (or more) longer. The narrator is also excellent.

It ended an hour before my run did

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Well researched and keeps the interest level high. initially is sounds like a barefoot love story but broadens into a well rounded storyline.

Grows on you

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