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Until five years ago, Alexandra Heminsley was decidedly not really a runner. Nor was she athletic in any sense of the term. She was an ordinary, curvy woman who was simply convinced that sports activities of any sort, especially working, were beyond her. But she's made working part of her life, and reaches experience the rewards: not only the evident things, like a touch of weight reduction, health and glowing skin, but self-belief, and immeasurable daily pleasure. She's discovered a fresh closeness to her dad, a marathon-runner of many years standing up , and her brother, with whom she ran her first marathon, as well as a new part to herself, and is becoming intrigued by the little-known but rich feminist record to running. On the way, Alex has already established to handle the logistics of understanding how to run: the intimidating questions of any 22 year-old sales associate while buying running shoes, where to get respectable bra for the larger bust, and how to use Vaseline to help make the wearing of both comfortable. She's exercised how not to freeze, how not to get sunstroke, and what (so when) to consume before a run. She' s exercised what's important (wallets) and what isn't (appearance) in what you wear. She's conquered the logistics of how to run a race, and how to employ a heart rate monitor. She's run the gamut of uncontrollable emotion a long-distance race may bring, and she's experienced the zen instant of distance protected, problems solved, that is the grail of every regular runner. Part memoir, part how-to, Jogging Like a Female is a funny, warm and functional exhortation to normal women to lace up their sneakers, and find out what they can handle.
