First Marathons: Personal Encounters with the 26.2-Mile Monster

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Overview

Oral histories of 37 people on the experience of running one's first marathon. Includes great runners like Bill Rodgers, Grete Waitz, and Ted Corbitt, and ordinary people from all walks of life. The result is a fascinating, emotional, multi-dimensional look at running the marathon, preparing one for the event far better than any training book ever could.

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Runners World UK
One of the scariest things about running a marathon for the first time isn’t the distance, the muscle pain, the chafing or the blisters. It’s not knowing what’s going to happen. That’s why this disarmingly honest collection of first-time accounts is so refreshing.
Wall Street Journal
Inspiring reading.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781891369117
  • Publisher: Breakaway Books
  • Publication date: 9/1/1999
  • Pages: 304
  • Sales rank: 826,932
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9
Introduction 11
Sister Act 15
Business as usual 25
The Marathon as Metaphor 33
A Brash Beginner 39
Be all that You can be 45
Exorcising through Exercise 51
How not to Run a Marathon 57
The Path Less Taken 63
Blood is Thicker than Water 69
A Willingness to Suffer 79
Against all Odds 89
Something all my Own 97
Ultra Man 103
Teaching the Golden Rule, Step by Step 109
My Worst Nightmare 117
Always the Coach 125
Yes, That's Me, and I'm Walkin' 131
A Nun on the Run 139
One Foot in the Grave 147
The Running Life 155
On the Run to a New Life 161
Running on Empty 167
Breaking Down Barriers 175
Kenyan Kinetics 187
Suffering the Sins of Neglect 195
Any Idiot can Run a Marathon 203
Rebel with a Cause 211
Me and the Marathon 219
Beethoven's Twenty-Sixth 225
The Mother of all Marathons 231
My New Passion 239
Who Wants Steinfeld? 245
A Victory for Humanity 253
Outrunning Demons 263
Cool Controlled Grace 269
A two-for-one Victory 275
50 and D.C. 283
Advice from Top Coaches 290
Favorite Songs to Run By 297
Glossary of Some Basic Running Terms 298
Recommended Books 302
Some Useful Web Sites 302
Lessons Learned 303

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 16, 2001

    good reading

    I haven't finished all the chapters yet, but will. It is very interesting and good reading! I was inspired to train for my first marathon after reading Seely's book and this book gave me the last nudge I needed to do it!

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