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Running Throughout Times Kindle Edition

by Roger Robinson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Every runner's story is part of a great tradition of running stories. Running Throughout Time tells the best and most important of them. From Atalanta, the heroic woman runner of ancient Greece—when goddesses advised on race tactics—to the new legends of Billy Mills, Joan Benoit Samuelson, and Allison Roe (the modern Atalanta), this book brings the greatest runners back to life. It's the perfect runner's bedside storybook.
Colorful, dramatic, alive with human insight and period detail, these stories are also full of new discoveries. Within these pages, you will find the true story of Pheidippides and the Battle of Marathon; you will read text from the world's first newspaper report of a footrace (1719). This book uncovers important evidence of the first road races, the origins of cross-country running, and the earliest marathons, telling the true story of the origins of the marathon and just why racers must run exactly 26 miles, 385 yards (42.2 km). New light is thrown on more modern stories like the first fourminute mile and the troublesome birth of the women's marathon.
All runners should read this book to really know whose footsteps they run in and why running is worthy of the effort they give to it.

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About the Author

Roger Robinson is a unique combination of long-time elite runner, award-winning writer, literary scholar, historian, and front-line journalist. Roger’s When Running Made History was widely praised as “the best book ever about running.” His earlier Heroes and Sparrows: A Celebration of Running, Running in Literature, and 26.2 Marathon Stories are regarded as classics. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.