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The Pants of Perspective
The Pants of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 Kilometre Running Adventure Through the Wilds of New Zealand | Anna McNuff
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Anna is an endurance athlete, adventurer and mischief maker. Once upon a time she represented Great Britain at rowing, but after �retiring� in her mid twenties, she began darting around the world on the hunt for new and exciting endurance (…more)
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Bookwormjillk
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I really like Anna McNuff‘s audiobooks, but this book about her long run in New Zealand could have been set anywhere. So, good book but a bad choice for #FoodAndLit and #ReadingOceania24 Sorry #NewZealand I half a$$ed reading about your lovely country. I‘ll try to make it up to you later in the year.

Catsandbooks Still counts! 👏🏼🇳🇿 13mo
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TheEllieMo
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Anna McNuff is an adventurer; in the tagged book she writes about her experiences running the 3000km Te Araroa Trail in Nee Zealand. Last year, she ran the entire length of Britain - #Barefoot!

#BloomingBibliophiles
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OriginalCyn620 Wow! 🦶🏻 5y
jb72 That is crazy amazing. 5y
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TheEllieMo
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I love this quote from Anna McNuff‘s book. It‘s so typical of any runner, to precede any given distance with the word “only” 😂😂

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TheEllieMo
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I suspect I would have enjoyed this more had I not read it immediately after reading Adventureman, both books being about long-distance runs across countries. As it was, I found myself comparing it unfavourably. Whereas Adventureman was very much about the whys and hows of the author, Jamie McDonald‘s, journey, this felt more about McNuff herself. I had no idea why she was doing the run, other than as a vanity project.

DivineDiana Nevertheless cool pants and quite an achievement! 💪🏻 6y
TheEllieMo @DivineDiana oh heck, yes, I am in awe of what she achieved, I wouldn‘t have the guts to do it! I just would have liked the book to have a slightly different emphasis. If I hadn‘t read it straight after Adventureman it probably would have been an outright pick 6y
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TheEllieMo
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1. Tagged

2. “I‘m clinging to a rock face on the north-west coast of New Zealand.”

3. “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading” Jane Austen

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

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TheEllieMo
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Having finished Adventureman, I decided to start reading this, which has been on my TBR for quite some time. Anna McNuff ran the Te Araroa trail in New Zealand a little while after Adventureman Jamie McDonald has run across Canada. She turned to him for guidance quite a lot, became an ambassador for his charity, and now they‘re all loved up as boyfriend and girlfriend 💕.

This will be book 5 of 9 for the #BookFitnessChallenge

TheEllieMo Thanks @tpixie, I‘ll take a look at that 😊 6y
tpixie ♥️ 6y
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dariazeoli Halfway to your book goal! 💪 6y
mabell Wow her life sounds incredible 😳 6y
Caterina Aww what a fun, inspiring story! Sounds like great motivation for the #BFC! 😊 6y
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