This past weekend, the University of Nebraska Press fielded a women's 10k team in our local Havelock Charity Run, and our charity funds went to the Lincoln Literacy Council. To top it all off, we also earned 3rd place in our division.

UNP Runners from left to right: Erica Corwin (web sales coordinator and sometimes blogger), Tish Fobben (direct mail manager), Amy Lage (UNP facebook fan), Cara Pesek (Publicity Manager and chief blogger), Donna Shear (director), Joeth Zucco (Senior Project Editor)

If you're a runner or you're interested in reading about running, check out Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running by Rachel Toor, published by UNP last year. A chronicle of Toor’s relationship with the sport of running, from her early incarnation as an Oreo-eating couch potato to her emergence as a hard-bodied marathoner, this book explores the sport of running, the community it brings into being, and the personal satisfaction of pursuing it to its limit. Alternating with Toor’s account of becoming a runner are the stories—meditations, examinations, celebrations—of how runners become a pack. An homage to running, a literary take on how an activity can turn into a passion, and how a passion can become a way of life, this book runs all the way from individual achievement—a personal record—to the world of friendship and belonging, the community that runners inevitably find.