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Two hours to cover 26 miles and 385 yards. Its running's Everest, a feat once seen as impossible for the human body. Now we can glimpse the mountaintop. The sub-two-hour marathon requires an exceptional feat of speed, mental strength, and endurance. The pioneer will have to endure more, live braver, plan better, and be luckier than any who has run before. Ed Caesar takes us into the world of elite runners: the greatest marathoners on Earth.
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I liked it!
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Surfacing
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Surfacing, Siri Lindley opens up about her unique celebrity-dappled early life. When an NFL superstar notices her beautiful mother, her idyllic childhood is upended. Glitzy dinner parties and world travel pull her mother away, and Lindley grows up feeling alone and out of place. As her intense loneliness grows into anger, she lashes out against her New England life of privilege.
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I m sorry but it sucks!!
- By Carlos Amador on 05-07-17
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Run!
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In his follow-up to the best-selling Ultra-Marathon Man, world-renowned ultra marathoner Dean Karnazes chronicles his unbelievable exploits and explorations in gripping detail; Karnazes runs for days on end without rest, across some of the most exotic and inhospitable places on earth, including the Australian Outback, Antarctica, and the back alleys of New Jersey.
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Great stories. Horrible narrator.
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By: Dean Karnazes
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The Comeback
- Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France
- By: Daniel de Vise
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
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Greg LeMond stunned the sporting world by becoming the first American to win the Tour de France in 1986, defeating French cycling legend Bernard Hinault. Nine months later, LeMond lay in a hospital bed, his career as a bicycle racer seemingly over. And yet, barely two years after this crisis, LeMond mounted a comeback. In 1989, he once again won the Tour - by a narrow margin of eight seconds. It remains the closest Tour de France in history. The Comeback chronicles the life of this great American athlete, from his roots in Nevada and California to the heights of global fame.
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Good book. Flawed reading.
- By david savage on 07-23-18
By: Daniel de Vise
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The Road to Sparta
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In 490 BCE Pheidippides ran for 36 hours straight from Athens to Sparta to seek help in defending Athens from a Persian invasion in the Battle of Marathon. In doing so he saved the development of Western civilization and inspired the birth of the marathon as we know it. Even now, some 2,500 years later, that run stands enduringly as one of greatest physical accomplishments in the history of mankind.
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Repetitive, no depth
- By Miles on 06-12-17
By: Dean Karnazes
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Course Correction
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From her first strokes as a novice, Ginny Gilder found herself in a new world, training with Olympic rowers and participating in the famous Title IX naked protest, which helped define the movement for equality in college sports. Short, asthmatic, and stubborn, Gilder made the team against all odds and for the next 10 years devoted herself to answering a seemingly simple question: how badly do you want to go fast?
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Every young woman should read this book
- By BCE on 11-13-17
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The athletes competing in the 1960 Rome Olympics included some of the most honored in Olympic history: decathlete Rafer Johnson, sprinter Wilma Rudolph, Ethiopian marathoner Abebe Bikila, and Louisville boxer Cassius Clay, who at 18 seized the world stage for the first time, four years before he became Muhammad Ali.
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Very Good Book
- By Jay on 07-30-08
By: David Maraniss
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My Life on the Run
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My Life on the Run chronicles the heatstroke and frostbite, heartache and triumphs he's experienced while competing in more than 1,000 competitive races on all seven continents. With the wit and wisdom of a seasoned insider, Yasso tells runners what they need to know to navigate the logistics of running in an unfamiliar country. He also offers practical guidance, such as 5-K, 10-K, half-marathon, and marathon training schedules, including his innovative technique known as the Yasso 800s for beginner, intermediate, and advanced runners.
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A fair running book, but there's better out there
- By Mark on 05-20-15
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I'm Here to Win
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As the winner of the 2010 Ironman Championship in Kona, Hawaii, Chris "Macca" McCormack may be the world's greatest athlete. In I'm Here to Win, McCormack shares his story along with training tips and practical advice to help listeners develop their own routines, diet, exercise programs and race strategies. Chris McCormack has dedicated his life to training for - and winning - the Ironman World Championships, one of the most grueling tests of mental and physical endurance in the world.
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It takes an Ironman to finish
- By Robert on 03-21-12
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The Tour According to G
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For years Geraint Thomas appeared blessed with extraordinary talent but jinxed at the greatest bike race in the world: twice an Olympic gold medallist on the track, Commonwealth champion, yet at the Tour de France a victim of crashes, bad luck and his willingness to sacrifice himself for his teammates. In the summer of 2018, that curse was blown away in spectacular fashion - from the cobbles of the north and the iconic mountain climbs of the Alps to the brutal slopes of the Pyrenees and, finally, the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
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Not a fan of GT but really enjoyed the book
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The Pursuit of Endurance
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Jennifer Pharr Davis, the former record holder of the FKT (or Fastest Known Time) on the Appalachian Trail, tells the story of her meteoric rise in the world of endurance hiking and, in doing so, unpacks key traits that make women uniquely suited to endurance. With a storyteller's ear for fascinating detail and description, she takes us with her as she sets the record on the Appalachian Trail and introduces us to the mentors who helped her to identify and unlock different facets of her endurance capabilities.
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Not uplifting
- By M on 05-15-18
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My Year of Running Dangerously
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As a journalist whose career spans three decades, CNN correspondent Tom Foreman has reported from the heart of war zones, riots, and natural disasters. He has interviewed serial killers and been in the line of fire. But the most terrifying moment of his life didn't occur on the job - it occurred at home, when his 18-year-old daughter asked, "How would you feel about running a marathon with me?"
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ESPECIALLY Good for Those of Us Who Don't Run!
- By Gillian on 04-12-16
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- ubermeat82
- 12-10-20
Great story with lackluster narration.
The story itself is awesome! However, the tone of the narrator is disappointing. Choosing a more stoic, masculine voice would have made this complete.
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- Jonathan
- 09-21-20
Interesting story but horrible narration
I love these types of stories and this one is fascinating but the narration was down right horrible. It was too painful to finish.
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- Ben Vella
- 11-10-22
Inspiring and informative
Having just competed at Kona, this book was a fascinating and inspirational insight into the the history of the race and Ironman. The story is amazing uncovering over its duration the battle of wills and battle of self coupled with some scientific insight into how the body and mind works.
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- Jan
- 08-12-15
Great, recommend to everyone doing or planning to do triathlons
Very inspiring, doing ironman triathlons myself I really could feel the emotions the author put in this book. I very much enjoyed, and very much agree with, the part about how much our results depend on physical strength, and how much on physical strength.
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- Golden
- 06-05-19
Great Story, ok Narrator.
Narrator over enunciated every syllable of every word. it was extremely annoying. otherwise great story
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- tmcd219
- 02-10-20
A Riveting Listen
This book is great for any endurance athlete who enjoys inspiring stories. A very well written narrative of a gripping rivalry of the Iron Man event. The book also diverges into the psychology and physiology of sport in order to explain the monumental feats of Dave Scott and Mark Allen on the day of October fourteenth, nineteen eighty-nine.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-25-18
Awesome listen
The narrator Seth does a great job in bringing the story to life and what a story it is. I must’ve listened to this book half a dozen times. The 1989 IronMan World Championship is the greatest race ever run. But Matt does a great job at setting the scene as to why Dave and Mark were such big rivals. Why could they suffer so much? Then the story of the race is told in excellent detail.
There is no full video of the greatest race ever run. But the book is so vivid that you feel as if you are there.
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- jen
- 12-06-22
Solid from start to finish.
As a 49yo trying to run halves I found this story very inspiring. I will definitely be researching videos of these events.
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- Tory Gisleson
- 08-18-18
Powerful
Awesome story, narrator brings the energy to the intricate details of the events leading up to 1989.
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- Brett Stensrude
- 09-03-17
Really enjoyed the story, but not the narrator
Would have preferred the author as the narrator like in his book How Bad do You Want It.
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