Austin,+Chandler


 * Entry One: October 1, 2011**

Yo Yo this is Chandler Austin reporting about his book. The book I have picked the book Running on Empty by Marshall Ulrich. I actually did not find this book anywhere it was given to me after i won my age group at the 2011 Leadville Heavy-Half Marathon. I choose this book because i won it it and the story seem to be pretty interesting, also because its about running, and three because i believe its about pushing your body to its limits. There really are no predictions for this book because it is a true story about a 57 year old man that runs across America in 52 days, which is 3,063 miles. I haven't started reading but i hope its a good book and here are some pictures to go with it


 * October 8, 2011 Blog 2**

I've started reading finally and i made it to the end of the first chapter which is 25 pages i believe. So far what has happened in the book is that Ulrich is just rolling you into the idea of what he is going to do and how he is going to do it and that it is going to be super hard. The one character in the book i have to chose is obviously Mr. Ulrich so far I've learned that this man for being 52 years old and thinking he is going to run across the U.S that this man has to be crazy or just loves the stay and shape and running. So far i like the book because its about running and how this guy is going to push himself to his absoulute limits.

October 15, 2011

Hey everyone I'm sorry to say i didnt get to read this week i was to busy with all the homecoming stuff and then my brother came home from college with friends so sorry and see you next week

October 22. 2011

My favorite line in the book is "dig deep". This means to when you are at the point of exshaution find something inside of you make yourself to keep on going and finish the race. This is my favorite quite because this is so true to me and what I do in running. Everytime I think ofthis quite it pumps me up.

October 29, 2011

I didn't get et a Vance to read this week because j had the state meet this weekend was trying not to stress about anything, and as you may know the team got 5th and I got third

November 12, 2011 #7 Sorry I missed last week but this week I final got the book done so just over 200 pages. The summary of this week is pretty much like the Last week and how he keeps getting closerto his final goals, ad when he finally eta there celebrates with his family and how surprised he was to be able to finish it even though how bad it hurt almost every day. Also talks about running across the u.s and how accomplished he felt or doing and beignonly one of the few people that could do it

December 4th,2011 Final Blog

Have you ever wanted to learn about someone pushing themselves to the absolute limit of there body? Well do I have the book for you. The book Running on Empty by Marshall Ulrich. Hi my name is Chandler Austin and I am here today to tell you about the true story of Marshall Ulrich running across America in fifty-two days. So sit back relax and enjoy this book summary. The book starts about talking about Ulrich's past achievements such as running the Leadville 100 an then the says day driving down to pikes peak and runnin to the top of the peak and back down. Also when he climb his way to te top of Mt. Everest with the Russian climbing team. Then the book goes off and tells the reader what he is going to try to attempt and how he is going to do. After that Ulrich starts to tell his imspiring story about his run across America. In the next part of the book he talks about his first challenge of running across Death Valley at 120 degrees. Then the book countinues out of telling his challenges of his run. Will he be able to run all the way? Well you can read the book an find out In this book I believe there is one theme Ulrich is trying to show you. The theme I believe in the book was when the going gets tough you either get more tough or you quit. In this book Ulrich obviously sides with the part of getting more tough by not quitting his run across America. One example of this is when he is running through death valley at 120 degrees and he talks about how hard it was but he looks ahead an eventually gets out of the valley and keeps in going. Also in the book there is one main thing that affects his running and that is the setting. This affects the storyline of his run because somedays he isn't able to run as far as he wants to run. This happens because maybe it's to hot one day or the it's rainy and windy it just varies from day to day. Over all this is a very good book for people who like to read about people pushing themselves to te limit. Even though this is ine o te main themes this not what the whole book is about. This is a wonderful story of a run across America. If I could rate this book I would give it two legs up. I would give it this rating because it is one of the best running books I've read and also it has a great true storyline. Also Ulrich writes creativly and tells you in deep detail of his run. So thank you for folksinger my blogging an I hope you give this book a shot if you like to run. So thanks again and har a good day.