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    Well, as we get more and more addicted we love to absorb all we can right? I just finished a great book. 26.2 Marathon Stories. >> Click Here For More Info What are all of your favorite books and movies? I am looking to pick up some media to fill those quiet days and sleepless night Embarrassed Dave
      Movies: Saint Ralph, Chariots of Fire, Prefontaine,Without Limits (also about Prefontaine) Books: Four Minute Mile, Perfect Mile (both about Roger Bannister), Race for Life (Ruth Heindrich's battle with cancer, drastic changes in diet and tirathlon training), any, I mean ANY book by George Sheehan Beyond Marathon - a magazine that reads almost like a book Ewa
      I would rather wear out than rust out. - Helen Klein You create your own universe as you go along. - Winston Churchill
        I've heard great things about Pam Reed's new(ish) book!
        2009: BQ?
          The two biggest running books from college (required reading for my cross team during the summer) were the novel Once a Runner by John L. Parker, Jr. (1998) and Running With the Buffaloes by Chris Lear (2001), which is nonfiction account of the Univ of Colorado's 1998 season...I highly recommend both.
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            What, no porn? k

            Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

            remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.    

                 ~ Sarah Kay

              "Personal Best" had a slight soft-core lesbo element with Mariel Hemingway as a budding Olympian. Sure she was flat-chested but, it was two girls kissing dammit! I also always liked a TV movie made back in the 70's with Peter Strauss called "The Jerihco Mile", nice use of the Stones' song "Sympathy for the Devil". "The Marathon Man" with Dustin Hoffman had a running element. Sure it wasn't as uplifting as "Chariots of Fire" but, I never looked at Lawrence "Is if Safe?" Olivier the same way.
                Ha! I had forgotten about The Jericho Mile, what a bad movie! Granted, made-for-TV, but wow! A guy running "sub-four" around randomly-placed trashcans in a prison-yard..... inspiring.


                Now that was a bath...

                  Somebody has lent me 'The Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer' by David A. Whitsett, Forrest A. Dolgener & Tanjala Mabon Kole. It makes some interesting points but I feel it is not really directed at what I want to do. The book is directed at people that don't run, but that want to achieve running a Marathon as a singular goal - I don't want to be a non-runner running a Marathon. I want to be a runner doing just another race when I get to that point. It has some inspirational stories though and some good advice for newbies.
                  What, no porn? k
                  Do they do pornographic running books then? Every time I return from a run my husband asks if I was naked. So far he's lucked out. Claire xxx
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                • Where's my closet? I need to get back in it.
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                  rectumdamnnearkilledem

                    Every time I return from a run my husband asks if I was naked. So far he's lucked out. Claire xxx
                    Hmmm...naked running. I think I'd need extra Bodyglide and something to protect me from the inevitable black eyes. Wink k

                    Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

                    remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.    

                         ~ Sarah Kay

                      If running naked means no running shoes then I am not interested. Wink Ewa
                      I would rather wear out than rust out. - Helen Klein You create your own universe as you go along. - Winston Churchill
                      rodgie


                        The Perfect Mile os one of my favourite books! Gets my recommendation. I liked the difference in training and it was the first time I head the name Emil Zatopek - great book!