SHORT FAT CHICK TO MARATHON RUNNER
KERRE WOODHAM with Gareth Brown
Harper Collins $29.99

Kerre Woodham is a widely admired columnist, radio talk-back host and celebrity. Fairly unusual for a celebrity to be widely admired but Kerre certainly has a legion of fans and I think the reason for that is because she doesn’t take herself too seriously and she is disarmingly honest when writing about herself.

To her qualifications you can now add marathon runner, (not just any old marathon either, the New York Marathon no less), and in her delightfully entertaining romp of a book she tells in her own candid, and quite inspiring way just how this unlikely goal was achieved. Gareth Brown was her personal trainer and he has made a contribution at the end of each chapter dealing specifically with training and fitness. He has also supplied in the appendices a complete and detailed training programme (invaluable) for beginning marathon runners.

This book is recommended to all who have any interest at all in Kerre Woodham, for those who want to make a significant change in their lives and need a little inspiration to get them going, for all those non-elite runners out there who aspire to complete a marathon, and for anyone who enjoys a positive, well-written contemporary story of surmounting challenges written in a most accessible way without any preaching or back-slapping!

Pic shows Kerre in action.