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posted: 12/12/2006 at 3:26 AM
modified: 12/12/2006 at 3:29 AM |
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.
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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 
Dave |
Dave ~ Marathon Maniac #1166
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posted: 12/12/2006 at 4:27 AM |
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 |
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posted: 12/13/2006 at 3:29 AM |
| I've heard great things about Pam Reed's new(ish) book! |
| 2009: BQ? |
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posted: 12/19/2006 at 11:39 PM |
| 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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posted: 12/22/2006 at 4:52 AM |
| "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. |
| Rust Never Sleeps |
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posted: 12/23/2006 at 7:12 PM |
| 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. |
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posted: 12/23/2006 at 7:57 PM |
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.
Quote from zoom-zoom on 12/19/2006 at 11:43 PM: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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posted: 12/23/2006 at 9:48 PM |
| Quote from kooky2003 on 12/23/2006 at 7:57 PM: 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. 
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.: 2008 Goals :.
• Run 1500 miles
• October 5 - 1st marathon - Milwaukee Lakefront - in my home state of WI
• PRs: 5k ~ 15k ~ 25k
• 1st trail race |
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posted: 12/23/2006 at 10:17 PM |
If running naked means no running shoes then I am not interested.
Ewa |
I would rather wear out than rust out.
- Helen Klein
You create your own universe as you go along.
- Winston Churchill |
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posted: 1/3/2007 at 3:34 PM |
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! |
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