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The Lure of Long Distances: Why We Run
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9781610390200
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9781610390200
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The Lure of Long Distances: Why We Run
$37.00
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Robin Harvie was a fairly ordinary runner. He ran his first marathon after a bet. Then he found that although he couldn't run fast, he could run long distances -- very long. A casual hobby turned into a 120-miles-a-week obsession, and a training route along the River Thames morphed into a promise to himself that he would tackle the oldest and toughest footrace on earth: the Spartathlon from Athens to Sparta. This race, a recreation of Pheidippides's legendary journey, is 150 miles long, crosses two mountain ranges, and is the toughest race on the ultradistance runner's calendar. It isn't at all ordinary. Harvie's experience -- from the mundanity of daily training routes to the extreme tests of the desert's scorching heat and the darkest hours of the night -- reveals the profoundly intoxicating experience of running, and the ways in which every mile taken is both a step further into the unknown and a pace deeper into the self.
| Author: Robin Harvie |
| Publisher: PublicAffairs |
| Publication Date: Apr 26, 2011 |
| Number of Pages: 288 pages |
| Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
| ISBN-10: 1610390202 |
| ISBN-13: 9781610390200 |
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