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SOMETIMES, CYCLISTS ARE RUNNING. AND RUNNERS ARE RIDING BICYCLES.

Running can be beneficial for any cyclist. From the possibility of doing some specific exercises to escaping from boring and long cycling routes. Likewise, runners sometimes like to replace sneakers with a bike. Either to maintain fitness without the additional muscular stresses that are typical of running or in the process of treating injuries.

In the book assortment of the Bonk, we like to keep some running related books that can help you improve your training sessions, improve your racing performances or simply to have fun with one of the inspiring stories that some of our books offer.

Books rules! And these shorter days are ideal for reading. Drink a few cups of our premium coffee and start discovering other people's adventures, ideas and running tips.

 

How to Make Yourself Poop: And 999 Other Tips All Runners Should Know, Meghan Kita

Every runner knows how important it is to prevent pooping in the middle of or just before a race or running workout. This book can show you how to ‘’fix’’ this problem sooner. Or, at least not at the worst time possible…….

For any runner who wants to be effective, this is a simple reference guide for every problem when running, before running or after running. Look no further. With tips on training, nutrition, equipment, motivation, health and racing, this guide is for runners who want to improve their performance and not poop when they don’t need to. From “The Best Way to Tie Your Shoes” to “9 Tactics for Getting Boredom Out of Running” and everything in between, these short tips, from trusted, easy-to-use experts are the perfect read for any runner.

 

GOING LONG: LEGENDS, ODDBALLS, COMEBACKS & ADVENTURES Editors of Runner's World Magazine; David Willey

For more than 40 years, Runner's World has been the world's leading running authority - persistently bringing its readers the latest training, nutrition and some of the most amazing sports stories ever told. From inspirational texts such as “Second Life” (the story of Matt Long, an FDNY firefighter who learned to run again after his leg was smashed by a 20-ton bus) to analytical essays like “Whites Can’t Run” (what makes African runners so fast), this magazine captures the minds, hearts and emotions of its readers every month. Now, for the first time, the editors of Runner’s World magazine have put together these and other stories about elite athletes, freaks, races and adventures to provide readers with a collection of stories that are impossible to skip. With more than 40 interesting stories, the book “Going Long” transcends racing to reach every reader with a pronounced appetite for drama, inspiration, and additional insights into the human condition and mind.

 

DUEL IN THE SUN John Brant

The 1982 Boston Marathon was a great theatre: Two American runners, Alberto Salazar, a celebrated champion, and Dick Beardsley, a gutsy underdog, going at each other for just under 2 hours and 9 minutes. Neither man broke. The race merely came to a thrilling, shattering end, exacting such an enormous toll that neither man ever ran as well again. Beardsley, the most innocent of men, descended into felony drug addiction, and Salazar, the toughest of men, fell prey to depression. One of the most thrilling marathons ever run—and with the powerful forces of fate that drove these two athletes in the years afterward. Pure fun to read.

 

DIET CULTS: THE SURPRISING FALLACY AT THE CORE OF NUTRIRION FADS AND A GUIDE TO HEALTHY EATING FOR THE REST OF US Matt Fitzgerald

From “The Four Hour Body,” to “Atkins,” there are diet cults to match seemingly any mood and personality type. Everywhere we turn, someone is preaching the “One True Way” to eat for maximum health….. Paleo Diet advocates tell us that all food less than 12,000 years old are the enemy. Low-carb gurus demonize carbs, then there are the low-fat prophets. But they agree on one thing: there is only one true way to eat for maximum health. The first clue that that is a fallacy is the sheer variety of diets advocated. Indeed, while all these competing views claim to be backed by “science,” a good look at actual nutritional science itself suggests that it is impossible to identify a single best way to eat. This is an agnostic, rational approach to eating habits, based on one’s own habits, lifestyle, and genetics/body type. Simple, but so true for everyone.

 

TRAIN LIKE A MOTHER: HOW TO GET ACROSS ANY FINISH LINE - AND NOT LOSE YOUR FAMILY, JOB, OR SANITY Dimity McDowell, Sarah Bowen Shea

Some jobs are hard. Some boring. But, there is no job as being a mother. We will just leave this with this two quotes……..

“A typical race morning usually starts out looking like a scene from a zombie movie: individuals or pairs of people walking down a deserted street, all headed in the same direction.... Inevitably, regardless of the weather, U2's "Beautiful Day" streams out of loudspeakers.”

“And then there's the perverse joy of subtly working in references to marathon training in daily life, say at the post office or while waiting outside my first-graders' classrooms at the end of the school day.”