The Lure of Long Distances : Why We Run Hardback
by Robin Harvie
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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. p class="MsoNormal"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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:PublicAffairs,U.S.
- Publication Date:26/04/2011
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- ISBN:9781610390200
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:PublicAffairs,U.S.
- Publication Date:26/04/2011
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- ISBN:9781610390200