Russ Cook Audiobooks

Mind over Miles: an endurance memoir about what happens once the legs stop agreeing

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.6/5 average

788 listener ratings

Who is Russ Cook?

Endurance writing tends to split into two kinds. There is the account of the route, all mileage and weather, and there is the account of the head that had to keep agreeing to it. Mind over Miles declares its allegiance in the title, mind first and distance second, and our catalogue files it across memoir, health and wellbeing, sport and the outdoors, which is a fair map of everything a story of this sort has to touch.

Russ Cook reads the audiobook in person, and in this genre that is not a small detail. An account of hard going lands differently when the voice belongs to whoever did the going: the pauses fall in the right places, the understatement stays dry, and nobody is being told about someone else’s ordeal at one remove.

Russ Cook in audiobooks

Five and a half hours makes for a brisk listen by memoir standards, closer to a long afternoon than a commitment, and the pacing suits material built out of stages rather than chapters.

Listeners have taken to it strongly. An average of 4.6 across several hundred ratings is a solid figure by any measure, and it places Mind over Miles among the more warmly received entries on our sport and outdoors shelf. It is also the obvious starting point, being where this author arrives on our shelves at all.

Reach for it if you prefer your motivation earned rather than asserted, and if you like a narrator who sounds like the person in the story because that is exactly who it is. The listing below carries the current details.