Book Review: Confessions of an Unlikely Runner

By Brooke Payne

If youre looking for motivation to start running as part of your new health and fitness goal, Dana Ayerss, Confessions of an Unlikely Runner: A Guide to Racing and Obstacle Courses for the Averagely Fit and Halfway Dedicated, is the book for you.

A hilarious account of a book nerd without an athletic bone in her body, Confessions of an Unlikely Runner chronicles Ayerss discovery that running isnt about winning. Even after running in multiple races and marathons, she still classifies herself as a non-competitive runner. She says, Races are like mullets: business in the front, party in the back. Ayers runs for the fun of it, for the excitement and for the stories that shell have afterwards, and she has plenty of those.

Running is about you, and Ayers provides motivation galore, with all the benefits of running: getting in shape, making friends, providing therapy and proving to yourself that you can do it. You can finish a race, even if youre one of the back-of-the-packers, like Ayers.

So, if youre in need of a pep talk to start running, to continue running, to keep you entertained while you recover from running or just to remind you why you started running in the first place, Confessions of an Unlikely Runner is a delightful read that will have you laughing out loud and racing to put on your running shoes.

Confessions of an Unlikely Runner is available in paperback from Amazon and Barnes & Noble and is currently free as an e-book for Kindle Unlimited subscribers.

Brooke Payne is an editor at Jera Publishing, 875 Old Roswell Road, Roswell. 770-642-6400. JeraPublishing.com