The Long Run
Affirm Press $29.99 pb, 268 pp, 9781925344479
Memoir
The Long Run by Catriona Menzies-Pike
by Gillian Dooley •
When I heard that there was a new book out on why women run, I assumed I would be reading about women fleeing domestic horrors rather than running marathons. Such a reaction might make Catriona Menzies-Pike sigh with frustration, and the cultural myopia which gave rise to my unthinking assumption is one of the reasons she wrote this book. 'I'd read a lot of books about running, but I struggled to recognise myself in any of them.'
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