Book jacket image for Better Faster Farther by Maggie Mertens

Algonquin

9781643753355

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Better Faster Farther

For centuries, women were discouraged from running. Better Faster Farther chronicles how and why they ran anyway.

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Review of ‘Better Faster Farther’

Women run everywhere: up mountains, on the beach, along city roads and country paths. They run for their health, to compete, for the joy of feeling lungs, heart and legs work in harmony. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a world where women don’t run. But in Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We…

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