Chris Lear Off The Market

Are you shamelessly self-promoting your book and your desireability? Pretty imaginative.

NO... velocitygrl is NOT chris lear trying to promote his book and desireability at all... velocitygrl actually exists and she is a TOUGH, DEDICATED little runner and she gained alot of insight into what training hard and running hard is all about by reading that book... its a great book... the book turned her into a good runner and she has done 2 marathons, her recent one was a break-thru for her!?!?!?!? keep on running :-) AjD

Chris? wrote:

Are you shamelessly self-promoting your book and your desireability? Pretty imaginative.

dude, coming from you (amazing fricking talent) that's an awesome compliment. thanks ajd...keep PR'ing for me...congrats on your win in Belmar!

peace peace

velocity

Geez

[quote]velocitygrl wrote:

lol...just had to clarify...that i am in no way in love with Chris Lear...i respect him as one of the best sport's writers of our generation. "Running With The Buffaloes" was an incredible piece of work.

You have exceeding low standards for "writers". Nice content, little imagination, poor grammar.

i don't know who you are, but velocitygrl was just clearing somethings up about her earlier post. i understand what she is trying to say, the content is good, but don't go bashing her grammar and saying she has little imagination. by the way she is a very good writer herself!?!?!?!?AjD

himmelskip wrote:

Geez

[quote]velocitygrl wrote:

lol...just had to clarify...that i am in no way in love with Chris Lear...i respect him as one of the best sport's writers of our generation. "Running With The Buffaloes" was an incredible piece of work.

You have exceeding low standards for "writers". Nice content, little imagination, poor grammar.

I don't think that himmelskip was criticizing velocitygrl's grammar and imagination. I think he was referring to Lear's work in "Running With the Buffaloes." I have to admit that I tend to agree with his assessment. I'm betting that velocitygrl's assessment of Lear's work is clouded by her overwhelming lust for him.

chris lear's wife to be is a runner. if i am not mistaken, she runs the 800 and was very close to qualifying for indoor nationals this year?

maybe i misread his post, but if he is referring to lear's book then he is wrong there to. that was one of the best running books i ever read. that season was my senior year at SHU and i was in the box right next to them in kansas for ncaa's. i connected with that book on so many levels since i had the best season of my life (24:16 at vcp), but came to kansas with a stress fracture and still finished 43rd and got All-American... i sacrificed alot... but back to the book, i know chris very well and he is a very intelligent writer and afterall, he spent a couple years living and training under one of the best US distance coaches alive (mark wetmore). that really showed in his book... i thought the grammar was very good to!?!?!? as for velocitygrl, she read that book 2 times and does not know chris, so her vision is not clouded by her lust for him, nor is she in love with him... she is in love with someone by the way. thats all i have to say...AjD :-)

oldguy wrote:

I don't think that himmelskip was criticizing velocitygrl's grammar and imagination. I think he was referring to Lear's work in "Running With the Buffaloes." I have to admit that I tend to agree with his assessment. I'm betting that velocitygrl's assessment of Lear's work is clouded by her overwhelming lust for him.

i tend to base my written appetite on substance and creativity more than grammar...just the idea to write a book on that subject in itself, i think, was very clever. But I respect your opinions. If you prefer proper grammar, maybe u should read something more appropriate next time like a dictionary. Yeeehaw!

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v

I dunno about you guys, but in my copy of Running With The Buffaloes, there are about 10 typos.. Not so good.. :( Oh well, I enjoyed the book.

i'm sure he didn't sit down and type the thing himself! you might want to point the finger at the publisher for that one...but that's the spirit Pepsi-Twist...you still enjoyed the book! You are not a gramar snob!! Two out of three runners prefer Pepsi Twist to the leading brand...

I do want to be clear about this: I enjoyed Lear's book a lot. I would recommend it to competitive runners generally, and college runners in particular. I don't think that it is great writing (if you want to see great writing on runners, check out Kenny Moore's "Best Efforts"), but it doesn't need to be.

It is the publisher's job to correct spelling and grammar. Don't blame Chris. He had to go with a less-than-ideal company because none of the big players would touch a book on, god forbid . . . running. Now that he has proven himself maybe the next book will be published by a better company. Color pictures would be nice, along with proper spelling and grammar. By the way, there were more like 50 errors, not just 10.

You are referring to LZ lyrics- leave me out of this!!!

It's actually an editor's job, not the publisher's. The book was OK, more than OK, actually. I hope for his sake that his next effort is marketed to, and written for, a wider audience. That's the real challenge. Good luck, Chris.

pulse wrote:

It's actually an editor's job, not the publisher's. The book was OK, more than OK, actually. I hope for his sake that his next effort is marketed to, and written for, a wider audience. That's the real challenge. Good luck, Chris.

How he can he write for a wider audience??? The book is about running and if he doesn't have some of the details about training in there it will be dumbed down. I hope however it is marketed however for a wider audience.