The Lure of Long Distances: Why We Run by Harvie, Robin

The Lure of Long Distances: Why We Run (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781610390200)

Vendor: Robin Harvie
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Lure of Long Distances: Why We Run by Harvie, Robin

The Lure of Long Distances: Why We Run

$37.00
The Lure of Long Distances: Why We Run by Harvie, Robin

The Lure of Long Distances: Why We Run

$37.00
Format: Hardcover
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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
ISBN-10: 1610390202
ISBN-13: 9781610390200
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Language: English
Published: 04/26/2011
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.85w x 0.99d
By Robin Harvie
By Robin Harvie
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Robin Harvie ran his first marathon in 2000 after a bet. When he realized he couldn't run 26.2 miles in under three hours twelve minutes, despite years of trying, he decided instead to see how far he could run before keeling over. In preparation for the toughest and oldest footrace on earth he ran 6,000 miles in one year, including the Round Rotherham 50 mile ultra, the Sri Chinmoy Transcendental 100 kilometer ultra marathon, in which he came fourth, and the 72 mile Bob Graham Round in the Lake District. He lives in London.

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