Out of the hundreds of runners at the starting line for the second stage, Leonard was perhaps the least likely to share a post-run meal with the pooch, but he was the one she choose. A serious athlete, he was in it to win - not to make friends with some random dog.
Having come to running later in life, Leonard didn’t have time in his career for a fun run. In a competition where every calorie counts, food is precious - and Leonard could hardly believe it when he saw his fellow runners feed bits of their own precious rations to the stray the night before. The grueling, multi-day sport sees runners take on treacherous terrain while carrying all their supplies on their back. There is a minor story of finding the dog after a mix of undependable and selfish people interfere with the effort to bring the dog home, causing a major search by some dependable people, and revealing the good of the Chinese people and the mixed characteristics of the Chinese government.This is a good read fro those who enjoy the complexities of human nature and the good personality traits of most dogs.(Picture Credit: commitment to Leonard began as he embarked on the second stage of the ultra marathon. I would label this book a memoir of a runner through midlife, with emphasis on a stray dog he encounters.The author combines his story with the story of a stray dog the he eventually adopts.His story is of growing up as a rejected child during the age of 10 to 15, and somewhat lost and drifting from then forward.The dogs story is of a stray with a strong personality who attaches immediately to one of a hundred runners crossing the Gobi desert.Together the two build strong bonds, the man's feeling of being uncared for dissipates, and the dog becomes family.The last integral component of the story is the difficulty in bringing a stray dog from China to England.
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