Happy 2025, UVRC!
If you’re like me, your social media news feeds have been full of year-in-review-type posts of friends’ favorite adventures, total miles, and vertical feet covered in 2024. As someone without a Strava account who logs my running and swimming on a paper calendar, I have little desire to add them up manually. I do, however, enjoy reflecting upon the places I’ve been and adventures I’ve had, thanks to my trusty running shoes. I hope you’ve had a chance to do the same, and also hope, like me, you are looking forward to more of that in 2025.
One thing I do share on my personal social media (which consists of just one platform, as my lack of techiness is probably apparent from the above paragraph) at the end of a calendar year is a picture of all of the books I’ve read that year. In 2024, one of my favorite reads happened to be about running. I think Lauren Fleshman’s book, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man’s World, is one of the most important books ever written about running. I highly recommend it to anyone who is a woman, knows a woman, loves a woman, and especially, is raising a woman. Looking at my list got me thinking, I imagine that you, fellow UVRCers, have running book recommendations of your own. We would love to know what they are! Please email me at kjsiladi@gmail.com with your favorite running book(s) and a quick blurb (a sentence or two is plenty!) about why you love them. (Running-adjacent books also accepted.) I will compile them for the February newsletter, and we can all start the new year with a hefty to-read list!
Cheers to shared miles in 2025!
Kristina