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| Author | Scott Jurek |
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| ISBN | 978-0-547-56965-9 |
Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness is a 2012 autobiography by ultramarathon runner Scott Jurek and Steve Friedman. It was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on June 5, 2012.
The book was a New York Times best seller, debuting at #7 in hardback non-fiction and remained in the bestseller lists into the next month. It has been translated into twenty different languages.[citation needed]
It relates Jurek's childhood in Minnesota, his growing interest in sport, family life and career. It also covers his change in eating habits, from a standard meat-eating diet through to vegetarianism and finally becoming a vegan. Each chapter ends with one of his favorite vegan recipes.