This Is Not About Running - Audiobook, by Mary Cain

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NARRATED BY THE AUTHOR.By one of the fastest runners of her generation, an affecting, brutally honest memoir of elite sports gone wrongand a clear-eyed call for how parents, coaches, and young athletes themselves can build a healthier youth sports culture. Few women have ever run 800 meters in under two minutes. Even fewer people have taken on runnings abusive training culture and won. Mary Cain has done both.She emerged as a running phenom at age 12, a straight-A student obsessed with Greco-Roman mythology and the freedom she felt when she ran fast. Like any middle-schooler, she just wanted to fit in, so she learned to run through the discomfort of hard training sessions, and the confusion…