Run Britain by Nick Butter - Travelling the Cuntry

My Score 7/10

Categories Covered: General Running book

This book, Run Britain, is an interesting tale that could be useful to inspire those looking to do Ultra's or multi day events or indeed just those looking to see what the human body can do.

Nick will take you on a tour of the country hitting the most Southern, Eastern, Northern and Western points of the mainland and coming out of it with a lot of tales and friends. Now is this book in any way a guide on how you should train and run? Certainly not. If anything he drives himself well past the limits of what the human body should do, essentially running on broken limbs and to the point of reaching an unhealthy level of body fat

What he achieves is remarkable and I would love to see how someone even better prepared could do. He mentions how badly he got through his shoes, would barefoot shoes / exercises in training have better prepared his feet, ankles, shins and body in general for what he was going to endure? He talks about the sugar lows and resorting to some unhealthy eating habits, could a fat adapted athletes have dealt with this better? It would be very interesting to have a athlete better prepared take on this challenge, equally the challenge is very much mind over matter and certainly goes to show you what the human body can be driven to do when the mind pushes it through its limits.

That is what I would take out of this book, no matter what you think your limits are you are probably wrong. That and running with people can make it very fulfilling and is not a bad way to spend some of your time on Earth.

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