It's weird how the timing of when you read a book works sometimes. I knew how much people loved this book and had always been intrigued by it. I figured now was a proper time to try it as the weather gets nice and I was planning to actually do some running on my own. I figured if I like it and am encouraged to run more, it will have done its job. It ended up being a far greater book than I anticipated. 
 The timing aspect of course involved the death of Caballo Blanco. He died right around the time during which I was in the last 50 pages or so. It was incredibly sad to hear this as he's such a great character in the book. So I've spent most of today reading a lot of the tributes and words on the man. It's weird how the timing worked out on this front. 
 Born to Run in my opinion was kind of like the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks book for sports/running. It combined a pure nonfiction element (some really good stuff on the mechanics of running and running shoes) with some very interesting characters, and a pretty great story underlining the whole thing. The book is also quite inspiring. As anyone who's ever run before can tell you, inspiration is a pretty useful thing. 
 This is just about as good as nonfiction can be. The only downside is it kind of made me feel like a sucker for buying my pair of Adizero Rush. Oh well.