Extra Mile: One Woman's Personal Journey to Ultrarunning Greatness Book

Foreword   Charlie Engle     vii
Prologue: Boston or Bust     ix
Where I Started
Why Write? Why Run?     3
Where I Come From     9
I Was Olga Korbut     15
My Brain, Part One: A Unique Disorder     21
High School     27
From Michigan to Tucson to Michigan to Tucson to Where?     33
Where I Am
Jim: Seeing Eye-to-Eye and Butting Heads     45
I Don't Want to Be Sick     57
My Brain, Part Two: Of Mice and Me     63
Parenthood     69
The Tucson Marathon     79
Chuck Giles     89
Some Like It Hot: Badwater 1     95
My Crew     109
Badwater Too     119
The Man from Ipanema     125
Running the World, a Day or Two at a Time     129
Runners I Admire     139
I Don't Like to Run Long Distances     145
My Brain, Part Three: I'm in Control     151
You Aren't What You Eat     157
Badwater 3: Really Bad     165
You're Only a Virgin Once     171
Forrest Gump of Picacho Peak: My 300-Miler     181
Badwater 4: Jogger-a-Go-Go     191
Leadvilleand Grand Teton     201
One Day in San Diego     209
Where I'm Going
Goals     219
Desperate Housewife?     223
Friends and Family     231
Where Women Can Win     239
Conclusion: Accomplishments     243
Epilogue: A Week and a Half of Ridiculous     249
Pam Reed's Career Highlights and Records     253
Acknowledgments     255