"Running" is one of four books in Duke University Press's Practices series, a collection designed to show how ordinary activities help us understand ourselves and the world around us. This one, by sociology professor Lindsey A. Freeman, reads like a love letter to running and writing. Being a serious writer and recreational runner myself, I found so many parallels between the two practices in these pages. What makes this book stand out from others on running is that it was created with the queer, feminist reader in mind. No matter a readers’ identity, Freeman’s ability to use her own running practice as a lens for viewing gender, compulsory heterosexuality, and body acceptance is bound to give new perspective on these dimensions of life that affect us all, whether we realize it yet or not.