Running The Seven Continents: Tales Of Travel And The Marathon - Clint Morrison

A good put-down-and-come-back-to publication, seven distinct stories, each in a separate chapter... Morrison is a keen observer... each story is a mix of running, autobiography, travelogue and history, in a readable, free flowing style.... he made the effort to be part of us.
--Don Hampshire, Stride Out Magazine of the Victorian Road Runners (Australia)

The author's motivation for running and travel mirror my own. He eloquently and repeatedly answers the age-old question Why do you run? His intertwining of history with each adventure and entertaining storytelling make for a very good read.
----Meghan Arbogast, 2007 US 100K Champion, Sixth in the 2008 World 100k Championships (Italy), Winner 2003 Christchurch (NZ) Marathon

This book will surely inspire other runners to grab their passports and venture to some exotic corners of the Earth to pursue their passion for running marathons. The goal of running a marathon on all seven continents is an extraordinary feat attempted by ordinary people in their pursuit of self-discovery. --Thom Gilligan, President, Marathon Tours and Travel

If warm weather is a problem, perhaps you would enjoy running the Sunrise to Sunset ultramarathon in northern Mongolia, 100 miles through spectacular scenery, and all proceeds go to preserving Lake Hovsgol National Park, which has been nominated for UNESCO World Heritage consideration.

Or you might get some ideas from Clint Morrison's new book called Running the Seven Continents: Tales of Travel and the Marathon. Morrison combined his love of running with travel and ran marathons in Japan, Yukon, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Greece, Uzbekistan and Antarctica:
--Marilyn Terrell, "Gadling" "Excuses For Traveling The Marathon"

I'm beat to the punch, in the sense that someone has already written a book about the philosophy of running a marathon in Japan and running marathons across all seven continents, and, not only that, but an entire sect of Buddhism has been in existence since AD 788 advocating running as a way of achieving enlightenment.

There are monks on Mount Hiei whose meditation exercise consists of running, running all through the night, in any weather, running until the mind itself is empty of any awareness. Perhaps I have been running the whole time I have been in Japan, perhaps I run only when I run. But in some way I sense a kinship with the monks of Hiei. In daily life, running is both my means of exuding awareness and enhancing awareness, and I now know that this is no contradiction.
---Running the Seven Continents, Clint Morrison --Turner Wright, Once A Traveler; Blog

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