Running/tri books - nonfiction or fiction

Originally posted by Hot Runner

Anything by George Sheehan, if you like philosophical type stuff. My favorite is probably Running and Being. I just love some of the things he writes--I've been running a long, long time and it has kind of shaped my personality in many ways (either that or it just suits my personality) so it really resonates with me. Can't remember the author (maybe one of those you mentioned, but also Once a Runner and Again to Carthage. I also have an old book that someone got me when I was a teenager--not sure if it's still in print, but it's called The Purple Runner--a very interesting read.

As for tri, I haven't read many books, since I got into the sport here and English books are hard to come by. I found Iron Wars kind of boring. Maybe too much macho trash talk. I did like Chrissie Wellington's book, though. There is a popular book (forget title, surely someone else here knows it) that profiles a bunch of different ordinary people, including at least one BT-er, training for IMAZ. Quite well-written but I found it a bit repetitive after a while. I'm not that much into full IM as a goal, so it mainly just put me off doing one after reading about how grueling and time-consuming everyone's training was, and how horrible a time many had with the race itself.