21 must-read health books like The Happy Runner: Love the Process, Get Faster, Run Longer by David Roche

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The Happy Runner: Love the Process, Get Faster, Run Longer

By: David Roche

4.13

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Is your daily run starting to drag you down? Has running become a chore rather than the delight it …

If you liked the health plot in The Happy Runner: Love the Process, Get Faster, Run Longer by David Roche , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

By: Brad Stulberg , Steve Magness

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A few common principles drive performance, regardless of the field or the task at hand. Whether som… read more

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  • science
  • personal development
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • self help
"Even seemingly trivial decisions deplete us."

-Brad Stulberg, Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

"It isn't experience that sets top performers apart but the amount of deliberate practice they put in."

-Brad Stulberg, Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

"More than half of white collar workers believe they have reached a breaking point. They simply can't handle any more information, and they report feeling demoralized as a result."

-Brad Stulberg, Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

"In every field that's been studied from wine tasting to financial investing, when it came to differentiating between top performers, experience was not the critical variable....experience and experti…"

-Brad Stulberg, Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

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2. 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

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  • science
  • fitness
  • personal development
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • self help
"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

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3. The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship

By: David Whyte

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Drawing from his own experience and the lives of some of the world's great writers and poets, David… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • self help
"Jane Austen never did marry. Why doesthat statement call for such reflexive pity? It carries a diferent meaning if we follow it up: Jane Austen never did marry, and therefore she was given the time a…"

-David Whyte, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship

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

By: Dean Karnazes

4.00

Format: 50 pages,

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  • fitness
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • health
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5. Racing Weight: How to Get Lean for Peak Performance

By: Matt Fitzgerald

5.00

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In this title, sports nutritionist Matt Fitzgerald offers the first comprehensive and science-based… read more

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  • fitness
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • health
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6. Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons

By: Bryon Powell , Eric Grossman

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

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  • fitness
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • self help

7. Dark River (Warriors: Power of Three, #2)

By: Erin Hunter

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The three children of Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw, grandchildren of the great leader Firestar, h… read more

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8. 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

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9. A Year of Living Your Yoga: Daily Practices to Shape Your Life

By: Judith Hanson Lasater

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

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10. 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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11. North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

By: Scott Jurek

4.22

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the bestseller Eat and Run , a thrilling memoir about his grueling, exhilarating… read more

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  • outdoors
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • health
"It was just numbers. I knew I could outrun numbers."

-Scott Jurek, North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

"AT legend has it that Pennsylvania hiking clubs and trail crews are proud of their state's nickname of Rocksylvania and don't remove rocks from the trail. In fact, some people claim they actually dum…"

-Scott Jurek, North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

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12. The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance

By: Adharanand Finn

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying look inside the wild world of extreme distance running. Once the reserve of only… read more

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

13. 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

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  • fitness
  • personal development
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • self help
"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

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14. 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

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  • science
  • fitness
  • personal development
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • self help
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15. The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement

By: Shane Benzie

4.08

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

'Heads up – here's how to run like a pro' - The Times'A fascinating book' - Adharanand Finn, author… read more

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  • science
  • fitness
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • self help
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16. 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

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  • fitness
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • self help
"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

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17. 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

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • health
"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

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18. 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

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"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

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19. 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

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  • fitness
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Choosing to Run: A Memoir by Des Linden

20. 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

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  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • self help
Cover of Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn't Built for Us by Alison Mariella Désir

21. Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn't Built for Us

By: Alison Mariella Désir

4.58

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

A searing exposé on the whiteness of running, a supposedly egalitarian sport, and a call to reimag… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion by Brendan Leonard

22. I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

By: Brendan Leonard

4.32

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

BRENDAN LEONARD HATES RUNNING. He hates it so much that he once logged fifty-two marathon-length ru… read more

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  • fitness
  • personal development
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • self help
Cover of Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory by Deena Kastor

23. 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

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  • fitness
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • self help
"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

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24. Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes

By: Christine Yu

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“ Up to Speed is a roadmap and toolbox for athletes of all ages. Every coach should read it and dis… read more

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  • self help
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • science
Cover of Born to Run 2: The Ultimate Training Guide by Christopher McDougall

25. Born to Run 2: The Ultimate Training Guide

By: Christopher McDougall

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Born to Run 's Chris McDougall and long-time running coach Eric Orton show us how to join the globa… read more

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  • self help
  • fitness
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • science
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26. Training Essentials for Ultrarunning: How to Train Smarter, Race Faster, and Maximize Your Ultramarathon Performance

By: Jason Koop

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When elite ultrarunners have a need for speed, they turn to coach Jason Koop. Now the sport’s leadi… read more

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  • fitness
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • health
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27. Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia

By: Michael Crawley

4.20

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2021 'Inspiring' The Guardian 'Excellent' Runner's Wo… read more

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  • fitness
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • health
Cover of Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run by Martinus Evans

28. Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

By: Martinus Evans

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A practical guide and a celebration of running for runners of all sizes and athletic ability, from … read more

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  • fitness
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • self help
Cover of Spod zamarzniętych powiek by Adam Bielecki

29. Spod zamarzniętych powiek

By: Adam Bielecki

4.24

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

Adam Bielecki stał się jednym z najmocniejszych himalaistów na świecie, ale gdy miał trzynaście lat… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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30. The Happy Runner: Love the Process, Get Faster, Run Longer

By: David Roche

4.13

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Is your daily run starting to drag you down? Has running become a chore rather than the delight it … read more

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  • science
  • fitness
  • personal development
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • outdoors
  • self help
Cover of alimentatia sportivilor  amatori si de performanta by Renee McGregor

31. alimentatia sportivilor amatori si de performanta

By: Renee McGregor

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Cum sa obtii energia de care ai nevoie inainte, in timpul si dupa antrenament Diferenta principala … read more

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Transform Your Habits

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Brad Stulberg , Steve Magness

4.18

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Matt Fitzgerald

4.10

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David Whyte

3.92

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3.87

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Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak

4.44

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