I don’t think I’ve read a book about running before. Unless you count the book I had to read about jogging when I forgot my kit when I was about 12!
Tripping over a fun runner dressed as a Koala Bear and needing surgery to repair the damage is one way I have never considered to meet women. Maybe they do it differently in Australia.
Anyway. This story is fun – apart from the angst of a runner thinking they need to cut everything but their sport from their life. And be lonely. And now having tripped over the runner is out of the commonwealth games training sessions and squad.
But they foster an abused dog who comes out of his shell. He gets taken back to the shelter as he has improved enough to be adopted. So he is sent to live with strangers again. Poor boy.
Inevitably the runner and the koala bear get together, break up then reunite. And the dog is sent back to the shelter as his new family didn’t want him.
So he permanently goes home with the runner and the koala.
Oh. And I like the chapter naming – Nellie No Mates.
I particularly liked the epilogue. It didn’t have the runner winning an Olympic gold medal. But she was packing her bags to go the Games. Much better.