Easy read and I admired this guy’s spirit and tenacity. The book chronicles the author’s personal endeavor to run more than 15,000 miles in 5 legs, crisscrossing the United States on a route inspired by Forrest Gump’s epic run. He runs for charity, grows his hair and beard out like Forrest, and occasionally runs “in costume”. His writing emphasizes his impressions of the people, cultures, geography and weather he faced. I actually found his logistical challenges and injury battles more interesting, so I wished he dwelled on more of the behind-the-scenes stuff (exception: he did spend a lot of the book describing his efforts to secure accommodations at the end of each day). In his defense, he alluded to writing a much longer draft that was edited down, so maybe his publisher wiped out those details. Also a little disappointed that he breezed over St. Louis so quickly in the book, but sounds like it was a fairly uneventful section of his run. Final criticism is that he did a lot of walking too (rightfully so, primarily because of injuries), but when he celebrates his mileage it was always “I ran X miles” – okay, you earned the right to claim it as running, I suppose. This is not a wow-you-have-to-read-this book, but it is relatively very high on my book rankings (currently). If you do not appreciate distance running, you might not enjoy it as much as I did.