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Footnotes

Vybarr Cregan-Reid

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“The French word for a track, sentier, carries with it the wonderful idea that pathways are like scent trails for us to follow,” says Vybarr Cregan-Reid in his 2016 book Footnotes.

And then he continues: “Whether it is the scent of a view, food or comfort, our bodies snuffle out experiences, employing our available senses to read or succumb to our environment or to what the American writer Henry David Thoreau called the subtle magnetism of the path.”

You will be forgiven if you responded to the quotation with a raised eyebrow for this is not your run-of-the-mill book on trail running. Cregan-Reid finds commonalities between running and the thinking of, amongst other, English, American, Russian, and German artists, writers, poets and philosophers.

If you expected this to be another book on how totrain for your Footnotes covers four distinctive areas: .