My Best Race (eBook)

50 Runners and the Finish Line They'll Never Forget

Chris Cooper (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
236 Seiten
Diversion Books (Verlag)
978-1-62681-016-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Fifty runners-from the world's elite to passionate amateurs-share the races they'll never forget in this "e;fascinating and fresh look at competitive running"e; (Jon Sinclair, former USA cross country and 10K champion, RRCA Hall of Famer). Every runner that enters a race has a unique motivation behind competing: racing for the challenge, for the achievement, for the health benefits, or for more personal reasons. But whether they are twenty-mile-a-day elite marathoners or twenty-mile-a-week recreational runners, each of them can invariably point to a singular performance as "e;the best race I ever ran."e; My Best Race is a collection of those singular performances. In this inspirational collection, fifty runners, from Olympians and world champions, to courageous disabled athletes and middle-of-the-packers, share their personal accounts of what they consider the best race they ever ran and why. Contributors include a top marathoner who sacrifices his place on the Olympic team to pace his friend to the final qualifying spot at the Olympic Trials; "e;The Central Park Jogger"e; who finishes a race she founded to benefit disabled athletes, fourteen years after being left for dead from a brutal attack that gripped the nation; an unheralded high school runner who beats a previously undefeated state champion and who goes on to become a two-time Olympian; the woman race organizers tried to physically remove from the male-only Boston Marathon in 1967; and forty-six other runners. "e;Such wonderful and inspiring stories by a diverse group of runners bravo!"e; Ryan Lamppa, media director of Running USA "e;What a fascinating concept! . . . A very unique and inspiring collection that gives great insight into the minds of runners."e; Keith Brantly, member of the 1996 US Olympic marathon team

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.9.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• ISBN-10: 1-62681-016-8 / 1626810168
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62681-016-7 / 9781626810167