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  • A Love Story
  • Written by: Jen A. Miller
  • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
  • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Written by: Jen A. Miller
Narrated by: Randye Kaye
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As the 2008 recession hit, Jen quickly found herself with a newly purchased home, a fading freelance business, and an alcoholic boyfriend. To avoid slipping into an even deeper depression, she took to the streets. What started as a silly assignment (running and reporting on a 5k) soon became an obsession (running 50+ miles a week training for marathons). Running gave Jen focus, discipline, and a way to block out negativity; it gave her the confidence that her relationships with men never had; it gave her hope and a way forward. Over the course of a few short years and hundreds of miles, Jen fell in love with running, and in doing so found a way to fall out of love with the wrong kind of men and back in love with herself.

Running: A Love Story chronicles Jen's inspiring transformation. Often witty and always thoughtful, Running: A Love Story aims to examine running from a repeatedly overlooked vantage point - that of a woman shuffling in the middle of the pack, who runs not for medals but for something more.

©2016 Jen A. Miller, c/o New Leaf Literary & Media, Inc. (P)2016 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

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Great story!

Loved the story, but the reader was REALLY tough to get used to listening to. For a while I thought it might have been a computer generated voice, but there was the odd inflection that indicated it was a person reading. Had to focus a little more than usual to understand the emotional content... got used to it about 3-4 chapters in.

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Frustrating to listen to.

The only reason this book motivated me to run was because I became so frustrated listening to it I had to find a way to deal with it.
While I finished the book, the narrator sounded like an AI robot. I found there was little emotion, no connection. I had high hopes for the story itself but by Chapter 6 and hearing her justify another toxic relationship, I was over it. I expected the story to explain or connect her love of running to the trials she went through, but the story was not that.

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