BAD ASS – My Quest to Become a Back Woods Trail Runner (and other obsessive goals)  

This is a book about running, but it’s also a book about life.

Jeff Cann, a life-long runner, is now in his fifties. Deep in the descending arc of his running career, he decides to kick it up a notch. This book chronicles his often misguided attempts to turn himself into a Bad Ass, Back Woods, Trail Runner. Sometimes lighthearted, sometimes not, Jeff touches on many topics relatable to runners… and pretty much everyone else.

This eBook is free.

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Fragments – a memoir: Jeff Cann has achieved the improbable. He has taken an honest look at himself. The twenty-four stories that comprise this book range from serious and sad to funny and uplifting. And they all include an element of raw, self-analysis. These well-crafted stories each stand on their own, but together they form a mosaic, a picture of a life in transformation.

Available now on Amazon.com.

  addictive…
    an interesting book about an intriguing person…
          sharp…          sparse…
                 beautiful…        a powerful read…

— Comments from a bunch of people no one knows.

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The short story Different Lives was published in the Bangalor Review

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Hundreds of essays appear on the Good Men Project website.

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The following stories debuted in Like the Wind Magazine — a cool British ink and paper publication exploring ‘Why we run.’

• Grunting (Symphony of Sounds) appearing in issue #7
• On Death and Living and Running appearing in issue #8
• Not tonight, thanks (Beer Running) appearing in issue #10
• LSD appearing in issue#13
• The Fluoride Treatment appearing in issue #18
• Slog appearing in issue #22

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Undercrust – This blogsite contains various older essays on topics including mental health, running, music and culture.