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This Is Not About Running: A Memoir
By Mary Cain
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By Mary Cain
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By one of the fastest runners of her generation, an affecting, brutally honest memoir of elite sports gone wrong—and a cleareyed call for how parents, coaches, and young athletes themselves can build a healthier youth sports culture.
Few women have ever run 800 meters in under two minutes. Even fewer people have taken on running’s abusive training culture and won. Mary Cain has done both.
She emerged as a running phenom at age 12, a straightA student obsessed with GrecoRoman mythology and ...