RUNNING BOOKS
Lisa Jackson’s Your Pace or Mine? was lifechanging for me in many ways,” says Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones, 54, from London. “In the two years since I read her book while on holiday in Italy, I’ve run many half marathons and three marathons, and become a member of the Serpentine Running Club.
“Lisa’s ability to set running goals and achieve them was, at times, unbelievable: when she decided to enter South Africa’s legendary Comrades 56-mile ultra, she went from regularly coming last in marathons to running a subfive- hour marathon to qualify. Her audacity appealed to me, as did her determination: she trained six times a week for 20 weeks to prepare for Comrades.