The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances - a new book by The Oatmeal

From Eisner-Award winner and #1 New York Times best-selling author, Matthew Inman, AKA “The Oatmeal,” comes this hilarious, beautiful, poignant collection of comics and stories about running, eating, napping, and one cartoonist’s reasons for running across mountains until his toenails fall off.

Weighing in at over 140 pages of comics, this collection includes a wealth of new material and each book comes with Blerch race stickers..


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Tour & Upcoming Beat The Blerch Races



The Oatmeal Book Tour



Book Tour

The book tour has ended. Thanks to everyone who attended!

The Oatmeal will be traveling to various bookstores to give lectures about spiders and meat. He will also be signing books and possibly drawing pictures.

Admission is free* and books will be available for purchase at every event.

* Except for the Strand in NYC (which requires a book purchase to attend.)

Washington, DC

Event Details

Wednesday, June 5

7:00pm

Politics & Prose Union Market

270 5th St NE, Washington, DC 20002

RSVP here

New York, NY

Event Details

Thursday, June 6

7:00pm

The Strand

828 Broadway, NY NY 10003

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Austin, TX

Event Details

Friday, June 7th

7:00pm

BookPeople

603 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78703

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Denver, CO

Event Details

Monday, June 10th

7:00pm

Tattered Cover (Colfax)

2526 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80206

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Beaverton, OR

Event Details

Tuesday, June 11th

7:00pm

Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing

3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 97005

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If possible, please RSVP on Facebook. It's not required, but it gives us a rough idea of how many people to expect.




Beat The Blerch Marathons

We're also planning on expanding our Beat The Blerch Marathon Series to more cities.
Below is a tentative schedule of upcoming races:

San Diego, CA Early Spring 2015
Philadelphia, PA Spring 2015
Chicago, IL Early Summer 2015
Denver, CO Summer 2015
Seattle, WA Fall 2015

Follow Beat The Blerch to be notified when a new race is announced: Facebook // Twitter

Beat The Blerch - 10k/half/full marathon - Carnation, WA



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