5 Best Survival Books - Improve Your Ultrarunning Mental Strength This Year

Ultrarunning and other endurance sports is not just your physical preparedness for a tough day out, but your mental strength to help you endure and even thrive under challenging circumstances. Having read a number of excellent survival books and true stories of mental toughness and physical endurance, in this post I am excited to share my favorite books on this topic, which I consider to be the best survival books out there (with no doomsday survival or mountaineering books mentioned).

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My selection criteria are as follows: did I LEARN FROM, AND ENJOY, the book?  Whether or not I did is a combination of these three:

1. Inspiration - Did the tales of endurance and mental toughness inspire me to channel more mental strength when I'm out running? And... did the story / stories inspire me to grow and develop as a person in not just my 'running' life, but my entire outlook on life?
2. Perspective - did the survival book help me put my own (relatively trivial) issues into perspective? For example: the author broke their leg and got frostbite, survived. I suffered a minor blister and complained about it?!
3. Practical advice - do I feel that I learned some practical tips on how to manage the situation if I find myself in a survival situation, for example if I get lost or suffer an injury in a remote location?

The Best Survival Books to Improve Mental Strength for Ultra Running and Endurance

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REVIEWED: Megan Hine: Mind of a Survivor Book Review

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[crp]BONUS - Natural Navigation Skills

I really enjoyed this book and believe what I learned from it has made me more aware of, and confident in, my environment, when out on the trails, whether in forests, hills or mountains.

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