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...ultra he was. Logging training runs of 150 miles a week, Shapiro often did 40-mile workouts and entered "ultramarathons" of distances up to 100 miles. This guy, the casual observer might note, was crazy...
WHEN YOU HEAR that a guy has just picked up and gone out West to run across America you've got to wonder why. James Shapiro isn't really sure why he has taken to the road, why he is forcing himself to run 40 or 50 miles every day for weeks and weeks and weeks...
...hazards a few guesses: "Maybe I think I'm running into happiness, running to some spot in the future of my life where I will always be happy," he thinks as he crosses the border out of California. But later Shapiro denies this in one of an endless stream of self-revisions and reconsideration's of what his journey means...
...that is really what this book--and Shapiro's run--is all about: Doing something for the hell of it--not for a reason. Like the bear who went over the mountain, he attains, the exhilaration--if you can call it that--of doing something...
...like the famous bear, Shapiro sees. The weary, tan and rugged runner observes America and with a real freshness and unconventionality. He writes not of superhighways and MacDonalds, but of little towns and roadside trash and the heat of the pavement in this place or that...