This week Meagan runs the LMCU Bridge Run, and Sue recovers from her highest mileage ever; in Meagan’s Book Club, Alex ponders the merits of electric-shocking the brain in Endure; our Runner Girl of the Week struggles with her last long run before Chicago; and in Running News we discuss the tragic abduction of Eliza Fletcher, Boston and London Marathons announce non-binary registration options for 2023, a new consecutive half marathon record is set, a new 24 hour record is set on the track; and excitement builds for Kipchoge in Berlin.


 


 


Meagan’s Book Club


Current selection: Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson


Next selection: Above the Clouds by Kilian Jornet


Runner Girls Book List on Amazon


 


Runner Girl of the Week


Evelyn on Strava


This Runner Loves Purple on YouTube


 


Running News


Eliza Fletcher abducted and murdered while on a run


Runners can identify as nonbinary in Boston and London marathons


Separating Sports by Sex Doesn’t Make Sense


Female consecutive half marathon record broken


Aleksandr Sorokin breaks his own 24 hr world record