good for beginning runners. I especially like her 1/2 marathon training plan.

Kara may be a great runner, but she is really REALLY bad at writing. This book isn't just bad, it's actually trash, like I threw it in the garbage when I finished reading it because no one needs to read her insane body-shaming and common sense running tips. Also, the binding completely fell apart. You would be better served just doing a quick google search for running tips.

OK. Not super informative. Love her though.

Good timing, as I'm nursing a slight running injury today. Very practical am encouraging advice.

I tried to slog through it. If you like brief, pithy, monosyllabic motivational quotations, perhaps this book will please you. Nothing new here.

Kara rocks! She's one of my running heroes, and I love the simple, no-nonsense way she puts things. Great book!

Definitely for beginners, so I didn't get much from it. Still, I enjoyed the anecdotes and the book is organized in such a way that makes it easy for scanning.

This is a quick and easy read, especially useful for novice runners.

I consider myself a newbie runner with only a few months (and under 20 miles a week) under my belt and am training for my first half marathon so I thought this would be helpful. In general, I found that it was not. There were a few nuggets of useful information but overall, it seemed like common sense stuff, or maybe I have just done more research already than the average woman starting running would/has?

Right from the beginning, I found myself unable to relate to her - she's a natural runner, highly competitve (duh), and very fast. Yes, I knew getting into this that she was probably all of those things but as someone who is not a natural runner, just does it for fun and fitness, and is slow, I found myself resenting her a bit, especially since that was pretty much all the first chapter was about.

I did like that her training plans only featured 3x a week running - that's what I do already and it made me confident that it would be sufficient to successfully complete my 1/2. A lot of other training plans out there have you running 5-6x a week which is just too much for me. She also puts a strong emphasis on strength training (yay!) and I really enjoyed the nutrition chapter as well - eat natural, non-processed foods and well balanced meals including healthy fats (yay!).

The "I Love This Quote" sections were annoying. There seemed to be a lot of ideas repeated throughout the book. I disregarded the chapter on pregnancy running entirely because it does not (and never will) pertain to me.

This book is definitely more of a sort of motivational book more than a technical know-how book which I guess was what I was looking for. I want to read a book by her coach! I would be interested in reading an autobiography from her as I very much enjoyed her story segments.