I love Meb! I guess everyone does.

This book is organized in a very straightforward way: each professional competitive marathon he ran before his retirement last year has its own chapter and are ordered chronologically. The race course, final place, time, and major life lesson are listed at the start of each chapter. The chapters are race recaps, including any special training changes he made, injuries, and racing strategy on the day of.

One thing that I really appreciated is Meb’s simple explanation of racing strategies that are included seamlessly into his race recaps. I’ve never had a running coach so I don’t know anything about even basic strategy decisions. But now that I know the basics, this will make marathon spectating much more enjoyable for me.

This book would only be interesting to runners. The life lessons are applicable to anyone, but 95% of the content is “shop talk.”