Run Gently Run Long Joe Henderson Book Review
Truth be told, I have long admired Joe Henderson. Been friends nearly as long. We are talking decades here.
Joe Henderson has pointed the style and touched positively the lives of many people. We are talking many thousands past at present.
Found a forgotten review of a remembered book in RUNNING:The Magazine For Thinking Runners . Volume Two, Result No. Three. Leap 1977.
THE LONG RUN SOLUTION by Joe Henderson. World Publications (1976)
Ane might call The Long Run Solutionthe final affiliate of a trilogy Joe Henderson began with Thoughts On The Run (1970), and continued with Run Gently, Run Long (1974). Such an identification would exist presumptuous and, ultimately, inaccurate. For Joe Henderson writes from the center and equally long equally that muscle – made potent by some twenty years of running – continues to function, Henderson will go on to write these personal appeals.
His books are appeals. Perhaps, even cries of anguish. Henderson, the editor of Runner's World,looks at the politics, the capitalism, the win-at-whatsoever-toll mental attitude which often perverts this sport, and thus his life, and he bemoans its pollution. But he is not apathetic. Just as he runs each day, he writes each day. Henderson sits down every morning and he asks his typewriter for answers.
How tin people exist exposed to running? How tin they learn that running is good, in and of itself? How tin we aid people run into running is something to practise every solar day of their lives? Tin can we? Will they?
Important questions deserve similar answers, and The Long Run Solution is replete with such responses.
"The challenge in running… is non to aim at doing the things no one else has done, merely to keep doing things anyone could do – but most never will.
"Forget the formulas. Trust your instincts. Do what feels right. And if it doesn't feel right, exercise something dissimilar."
Henderson may want us to forget formulas, but he offers some rules of his own which be emphasized.
"i. Start without an end in sight. two. Remember, anything is better than goose egg. 3. Let the pace find itself. 4. Run for yourself. 5. Run for today."
And, lest i call up Henderson is no more than the dogmatic campaigner of one specific activity, i.e., running, consider these words: "Don't run because information technology will be healthy later, just because it feels good to do while you're at it. If running is not and can never be your play, observe another game."
Contrary to popular opinion, non everything Henderson writes is incontestable. For example, he disavows the usage of mileage totals as a means of running evaluation.
Joe does not know how far he ran yesterdy, final week, last yr. "I don't want to know," he writes, "considering if I kept rail of my running this way, I'd exist poorer for information technology. I'd showtime to feel similar a pocket calculator. Numbers would exist more important to me than experiences. Worse, I'd always have more mountains to climb. I would await up each morning and encounter a superlative I had to attain, a quota I had to meet. Such hulking obstacle would scare me."
With that attitude, trepidation would seem inevitable. Henderson's "hulking obstacles" are of his own making.
Like nuclear energy, the counting of miles can be used to build or to destroy. The deleterious effects of "miles-counting" are a result of the mode skillful, not the procedure itself. The numerical accumulation of mileage is detrimental only if ane allows it to dominate, to control his running. A dependence upon sheer quantity can cause a runner to overwork or it can exist used as a measure, a guide, by which 1'south capabilities tin can be improved.
Mileage per se tin can indeed become more and more than important to the runner. A calendar week may seem valueless if one hundred (100) miles are non covered; today's run may be a failure considering ane'south average was not maintained. The runner can become more a monomaniacal mathematician than an athlete. But this terminate is merely a manifestation of some psychological disorientation on the runner'due south role. Subsequently all, running is something nosotros do, it is not done to usa.
(To confirm your suspicions, this reviewer admits to keeping both a daily diary – and a chart – in which every run he has always taken has been annotated. To the tenth.)
Much of what Henderson writes seems repetitious. Of course, I have read everything he has published and, afterward all, his is a personal style – he has merely 1 life to write about. More importantly, what Joe has to say bears repeating. The homo has run for 20-plus (20+) years; even if I did non agree with Henderson, I would still want to hear what he had learned in that time.
One last note. Despite his protestations to the contrary, Joe Henderson is a philosopher. The Long Run Solution advises the reader almost much more than running; information technology discusses, actually, a way of life. End and odour the roses, he seems to be maxim, and he's correct.
Epilogue. Few years afterward, Nike bought Running Magazine; start name I thought of was Joe Henderson. Wish we had been able to work together longer. Like to call back of myself as an Original Gangster of Running, only Joe Henderson is the real deal.
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Some other book. He writes every twenty-four hour period. That's a lot of miles.
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