Doing more reading about running than I am running

The Little Red Book of Running
by Scott Douglas

Advice, lots of advice.  And suprisingly, none that I really disagreed with.  It consists of a thousand or so short essays on different aspects of running, from when and where and how often. And in almost every case, his conclusion is this: it doesn't matter. Do what works for you, try not to get into a rut, and enjoy yourself.

Here's an example:

Always be open to new running experiences. Who knows what aspects of the sport will appeal to you at different times in your running career? After all, have you always like the same kind of music, watched the same kind of movies, eaten the same foods, read the same kind of books?

And so on. Although it has a lot of tips of the how-to of running, this is primarily a book about the feel-how of running.  On the how-to side he has an amusing note about why you shouldn't run to your medical checkup appointment--hard running causes short-term changes that could be taken as signs of disease--and he gives a few concrete examples of this.

Now that I look back at it, this will be a useful book to keep around and re-read a time or two--get some inspiration; pick up the points I missed.  I recommend it, but with this warning--the articles are very, very short. Some of them could have been five times as long.