18 must-read nonfiction books like Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step by Ryan Hall

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Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

By: Ryan Hall

3.93

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Journey with Olympian and American half marathon record holder Ryan Hall as he reflects on the joys…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step by Ryan Hall , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle by Matt Fitzgerald

1. How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

By: Matt Fitzgerald

4.10

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

The greatest athletic performances spring from the mind, not the body. Elite athletes have know… read more

Similar categories in Matt Fitzgerald's How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle book and Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Exercising mental fitness was a daily battle for him, but a battle he chose."

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

"It was a very hard race from the word go with a combination of great runners and a tough course,"

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

"What is the logic of punishing yourself each day, of striving to become better, more efficient, tougher?"

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

"Interpreting running as an opportunity to discover and become his best self, and to give his best to others, through the relentless pursuit of toughness, or guts—a kind of courage."

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

Cover of The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It by Neal Bascomb

2. The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It

By: Neal Bascomb

4.21

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of huma… read more

Similar categories in Neal Bascomb's The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It book and Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner by Dean Karnazes

3. Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

By: Dean Karnazes

4.00

Format: 50 pages,

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Similar categories in Dean Karnazes's Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner book and Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack by Cory Reese

4. Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

By: Cory Reese

3.91

Format: 192 pages,

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Similar categories in Cory Reese's Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack book and Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross-Country Team by Chris Lear

5. Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross-Country Team

By: Chris Lear

3.87

Format: 288 pages,

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Similar categories in Chris Lear's Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross-Country Team book and Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography

6. 80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower

By: Matt Fitzgerald , Robert Johnson

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

TRAIN EASIER TO RUN FASTER This revolutionary training method has been embraced by elite runners--w… read more

Similar categories in Matt Fitzgerald's 80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower book and Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

7. Once a Runner

By: John L. Parker Jr.

4.20

Format: 251 pages,

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8. Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

By: Scott Jurek , Steve Friedman

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force--and darling--in the grueling and gro… read more

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Cover of Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself by Rich Roll

9. Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

By: Rich Roll

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this edition can be found here. Finding Ultra is an incredible but true a… read more

Similar categories in Rich Roll's Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself book and Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"I loved the pain, and the pain loved me back."

-Rich Roll, Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

Cover of Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex  Hutchinson

10. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

By: Alex Hutchinson

4.13

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

From the National Magazine Award-winning Runner’s World columnist, frequent New Yorker online contr… read more

Similar categories in Alex Hutchinson's Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance book and Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Choose Strong: The Choice That Changes Everything by Sally McRae

11. Choose Strong: The Choice That Changes Everything

By: Sally McRae

4.48

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

A REAL LOOK AT STRENGTH Known worldwide for her mental fortitude, hardcore training tactics, and… read more

Similar categories in Sally McRae's Choose Strong: The Choice That Changes Everything book and Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of A Runner's High: My Life in Motion by Dean Karnazes

12. A Runner's High: My Life in Motion

By: Dean Karnazes

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

“A Runner’s High wakes up the appetite to run long distances. Dean takes us on a lifelong journey o… read more

Similar categories in Dean Karnazes's A Runner's High: My Life in Motion book and Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career by Meb Keflezighi

13. 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career

By: Meb Keflezighi

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Four-time Olympian Meb Keflezighi shares lessons learned from each of the 26 marathons he's run in … read more

Similar categories in Meb Keflezighi's 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career book and Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"To my classmates, teammates, teachers, coaches, and friends, and the people in the medical field who encouraged and challenged me to be my best in every aspect of life."

-Meb Keflezighi, 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career

"Un mod prin care maratonul se deosebește de alte curse îl reprezintă faptul că lecțiile lui au deseori paralele cu restul vieții tale. Răbdarea necesară ca să stăpânești maratonul este o abilitate tr…"

-Meb Keflezighi, 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career

Cover of Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World by Lauren Fleshman

14. Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

By: Lauren Fleshman

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Fleshman's Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World book and Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"It takes guts to put yourself out there when your body doesn't match the ideal, and to keep doing your best when your best isn't what you hoped for, or what others expected."

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

"She must have known what she planned to do, the risk she was going to take. 'Where did that calm come from?' I had wondered at the time. Now I knew. It was a resolve to execute the plan without attac…"

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

"…my whole life I had been engaging in the hard work of learning to run for myself, not for others. I had been learning how to return to myself, again and again, in a world full of forces that consist…"

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

"Title IX opened a door fifty years ago that can never be closed again, but equality doesn’t end at the equal right to play. True equality in sports, like any other industry, requires rebuilding the s…"

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

Cover of Bravey by Alexi Pappas

15. Bravey

By: Alexi Pappas

4.20

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

"Renaissance runner" (New York Times) Alexi Pappas--Olympic athlete, actress, filmmaker and writer-… read more

Similar categories in Alexi Pappas's Bravey book and Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"Headed to the moon not now but soon."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"Grit is what’s left over when nothing’s left."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"A life can’t be replicated and it doesn’t need to be."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"A dream come true unfolds very very gradually then all at once."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

Cover of The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team by Kara Goucher

16. The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team

By: Kara Goucher

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this unvarnished and affecting memoir, Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living th… read more

Similar categories in Kara Goucher's The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team book and Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Choosing to Run: A Memoir by Des Linden

17. Choosing to Run: A Memoir

By: Des Linden

4.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Featuring both the story of an historic, unforgettable win and insight into the life of an indelibl… read more

Similar categories in Des Linden's Choosing to Run: A Memoir book and Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step by Ryan Hall

18. Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

By: Ryan Hall

3.93

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Journey with Olympian and American half marathon record holder Ryan Hall as he reflects on the joys… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step book and Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

  • christian
  • biography
  • memoir
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Running the Dream: One Summer Living, Training, and Racing with a Team of World-Class Runners Half My Age by Matt Fitzgerald

19. Running the Dream: One Summer Living, Training, and Racing with a Team of World-Class Runners Half My Age

By: Matt Fitzgerald

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Matt Fitzgerald has already made a name for himself in the endurance sport community with books lik… read more

Similar categories in Matt Fitzgerald's Running the Dream: One Summer Living, Training, and Racing with a Team of World-Class Runners Half My Age book and Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Run Like a Pro (Even If You're Slow): Elite Tools and Tips for Runners at Every Level by Matt Fitzgerald

20. Run Like a Pro (Even If You're Slow): Elite Tools and Tips for Runners at Every Level

By: Matt Fitzgerald

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Cutting-edge advice on how to achieve your personal best, for everyone from casual runners to ultra… read more

Similar categories in Matt Fitzgerald's Run Like a Pro (Even If You're Slow): Elite Tools and Tips for Runners at Every Level book and Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory by Deena Kastor

21. Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

By: Deena Kastor

4.36

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

From an Olympic medalist runner and the record-holder in the women's marathon and half-marathon, a … read more

Similar categories in Deena Kastor's Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory book and Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"You can't show love by hurting others"

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

"What I needed in the moment was a family vacation."

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

"I saw perseverance, determination, and fearlessness."

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

"You don't run with your feet- you run with your heart."

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

16 must-read audiobook books like Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step by Ryan Hall

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How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

Matt Fitzgerald

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It

Neal Bascomb

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

Cory Reese

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

Rich Roll

4.02

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17 best-selling audiobook books like Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack by Cory Reese

Transform Your Habits

Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

Jesse Itzler

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Hal Koerner's Field Guide to Ultrarunning: Training for an Ultramarathon from 50K to 100 Miles and Beyond

Hal Koerner

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

Cory Reese

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons

Bryon Powell , Eric Grossman

4.20

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