The Tao of Running

Your Journey to Mindful and Passionate Running

By: Gary Dudney

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's summary

The Tao of Running brings a fresh and unique perspective to the topic of running. It offers listeners multiple ways to significantly deepen, enlighten, and enrich their running experiences.

• Introduces a unique and bold new treatment of the topic of running
• Offers multiple ways to think about and appreciate the running experience
• Explains why running is so satisfying and why it has the power to transform lives
• Gives practical advice for how the listener can improve his or her own running
• Full of vivid firsthand accounts illustrating the high adventure of running

Running can evoke spiritualism and mindfulness; it can teach fundamental lessons about goals, self-awareness, and self-improvement; it can be a transformative existential experience. The Tao of Running goes beyond the standard training and racing advice found in other running books and guides runners to a wider understanding of how running fits into their own aspirations, goals, and life philosophies.

It also offers listeners lots of practical advice on getting the most out of running. Listeners will gain a greater appreciation for the rewards and possibilities inherent in running and will significantly deepen, enlighten, and enrich their running experiences.

©2016 Meyer & Meyer Sport (UK) Ltd. (P)2016 Recorded Books

Inspirational

I bought this book because I am training for my first ultra and need all the help I can get. I found the book to be very inspiring and full of tips to overcome the fear of failure. If you are an endurance athlete, this book is a must read. The narrator is absolutely the best.

Wonderful

Can you tell Michelle Maas left Roseland trail monster destroy a little integrate work and wonderful stories of insights about 100 Milers!!

Inspiring, Entertaining, and Practical

First, Sean Pratt’s performance is outstanding. The author’s writing is already good and Pratt makes it even more compelling and engaging. The book contains a lot of useful information and advice on how to run with “passionate commitment,” and I enjoyed the author’s many 100-mile race stories. If you’re specifically interested in Taoism and running, you might be disappointed. There are sections on Buddhism, mindfulness, existentialist philosophy, and positivity, but hardly anything on Taoism. Overall, an excellent and entertaining resource on running as a way of being.

This was an excellent book with excellent vocals....

Very well spoken and well written, lets you feel almost like you are there. Not too much about different religions, mostly about running.

Great for your running mind.

Although the writer is compelling, the hundred Mile distance still does not appeal to me. 50M was enough for this Ultra runner.

Helpful

at a time when I felt burnt out by running, this book has helped me regain the inspiration to get out and run with a new attitude on running, and a deeper purpose.

Substance

If you want to learn about running and meditation this is not the book for you. If you want to hear about the authors ultra marathon experiences then dive in. Not what I was expecting and very disappointing.

more memoir of race experience, less Tao experien!

I found this book to be too heavily about each race, trials and triumphs with occasional reference to Taoist thinking, and experience as it relates to running. The author is really wanting people to become ultra-runners not Taoist runners. I suppose he sees those as connected elements.