The Plant Based Runner: A Personal Guide to Running, Healthy Eating, and Discovering a New You - Softcover

Cairns, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 172917020X ISBN 13: 9781729170205

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

A few years ago Jonathan Cairns was 46, fat, unfit, and going through a very painful separation.

He had never exercised and had zero energy but as a way of dealing with the pain and frustration of his separation, he decided to take up running. Or as he talks about in his book The Plant-Based Runner: A Personal Guide to Running, Healthy Eating, and Discovering a New You, he started to 'put one foot in front of the other'.

This book is raw and real. There is nothing in it that is not tried and tested by Cairns, and it has an authentic ring about it. This is a personal story, about his struggle to see his children in the face of a relentless, anti-father bias in the judicial system. He is running to solve problems, running to find solutions as opposed to running away from trouble. He takes responsibility for everything that is his.

Straight-talking and funny, Jonathan takes you by the hand and chapter by chapter helps you to put your excuses aside and find a new appreciation for your body, your health and for the power of confidence. You feel like if you follow his steps you could do a lot more with your life.

There are books that you will read that tell you how to live, or how to do something that will improve your life, and if you follow the advice, as you might for a time, it may work, for a while. And there are books that will leave you changed, transported to another place in yourself and in the world you inhabit because of the power of the story that you have read.

Even if you are not a runner or a dad deprived of your kids, this is a read that has inspiration and hope.

About this title

Review:

"This book is unlike any other book about health and nutrition that I have ever read, and I have read quite a number of them."
--Sedonia Guillone (Amazon Reviewer)

As a Doctor of Chiropractic, Acupuncturist, Natural Health column writer and author of 12 books, I have read hundred of health related books. I am someone who has dedicated their life to health. I wondered what about this book would make me review it positively and suggest it to others. I knew I had to be honest. Now, having read the book I can enthusiastically endorse this book.
--Mark Reps (Amazon Reviewer)

As a vegan, I enjoyed the recipes that he included and I thought he gave a lot of excellent advice about health, nutrition, and fitness. He was honest and unflinching in his descriptions of the difficulties he encountered on his road to health.
--Suz deMello (Amazon Reviewer)

"Cairns does a great job describing the many emotions that he felt in training and in the actual races."
--Kobalt Books Ent (Amazon Reviewer)

"This book was very well written, and is an interesting one to follow. The author takes us on his journey to become healthy, and it does have a happy ending."
--Dr. Jim (Amazon Reviewer)

About this edition

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 172917020X
• ISBN 13: 9781729170205
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 174