run2joy: Ashton Eaton - World's Greatest Athlete

Saturday, August 11, 2012

U.S. Olympian Ashton Eaton won the gold in the Decathlon yesterday. Click here to watch a nice video from NBC. And from SB Nation's Dan Rubenstein:

Books I Like - Running & Otherwise

Born to Run ~by Christopher McDougall
Brain Training for Runners ~by Matt Fitzgerald
Finding Your Way in a Wild New World ~Martha Beck
Love, Medicine & Miracles ~Bernie S. Siegel, MD
Lore of Running ~by Tim Noakes, MD
Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports ~Kathrine Switzer
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey ~Jill Bolt Taylor, Ph.D.
Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul ~Stuart Brown, M.D.
Run - The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel ~Matt Fitzgerald
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain ~by John J. Ratey
Why We Run ~by Bernd Heinrich

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