Monthly Archives: February 2015

Finding Ultra

Finding Ultra

This is an easy read and an inspiring story. I admire him for successfully conquering his alcoholism. The amount of pain this man has gone through is unbelievable. It makes running a marathon look like an easy task in comparison.

Something very interesting I picked up from the book is the Hadd Method of endurance training which, in a nutshell, says you need to run slower (about 70& of your heart rate) to get faster over time.

The only thing that jars is his ‘plant-powered’ diet. He takes all sorts of weird supplements and needs to eat vast quantities of vegan stuff like avocadoes in order to power himself through endurance events. Both of these things seems silly and unnecessary to me.

Good Evening Mrs Craven

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This was a book group choice. It is the first collection of short stories that I’ve enjoyed in its entirety. They give a fascinating insight into the situations that middle class English women found themselves in during the war. Each story is a little portrait of the protagonist. Although you don’t have long to get to know them in a short story, the characters are believable and their emotions are very vivid. There are a few lines that made me laugh out loud. Yes, I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I might.