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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Looniness of the Long Distance Runner: An Unfit Londoner's Attempt to Run the New York City Marathon from Scratch (edizione 2007)di Russell F. Taylor (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 05 Jun 2009 - Sensible Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye How could I resist this title?! This is a likeable and amusing story of one man's struggle to achieve running the New York Marathon. From his first efforts on the treadmill through to Race The Train and other proper races, he manages to be funny and to capture the feelings of the runner, especially a beginner who is trying to work up to something fairly spectacular. I liked that, like me, he is not at his best in the first 20 mins of a run (and therefore doesn't like doing 5ks as they stop before he's got into his stride) and the bits about the feeling of anticlimax after doing a big race. One for the runner, I think, who will recognise bits of the experience and smile wryly. I wonder what the author is doing now. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Out-of-shape and hammered more often than not, Russell Taylor, nearing 40, begins training for the NYC marathon as something of a midlife crisis. His journey from the treadmill in North London to the mountains of Wales to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway illuminates the meaning of the egalitarian race, the only sport where any weekend jogger can run with world-class champions. For everyone who has contemplated running the marathon or watched from the sidelines feeling an uneasy mix of envy and gratitude, this comical and inspiring account will change their understanding of the legendary race. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Ike a foreigner with no travel guide. But mostly it was a fun, if not a bit fluffy and prone to cynicism, read. ( )