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《Runners on Running》简介：

Runners on Running is the ultimate anthology of inspirational stories, humorous accounts, and pivotal moments in the sport. This one-of-a-kind collection includes over 30 unforgettable stories from the most acclaimed writers in running:

• John Brant

• Kenny Moore

• Amby Burfoot

• Kathrine Switzer

《Runners on Running》目录：

acknowledgments vi
introduction vii
spirit 1
Running 2
George Sheehan
Runners 9
Roger Hart
One Runner’s Beginnings 14
Rachel Toor
Seasons 17
Hal Higdon
body 21
My Old Buick 22
Don Kardong
Machine 29
Leslie Heywood
White Men Can’t Run 34
Amby Burfoot
Evolution of Intelligent Running Ape People 43
Bernd Heinrich
mind 57
I Don’t Like to Run Long Distances 58
Pam Reed
The Outer Limits/Running Into the Abyss 62
Steve Scott with Marc Bloom
The Bridge 74
Frank Murphy
mentor 85
Running for Their Lives 86
Gary Smith
Lornah and Her Camp for Girls 100
Lori Shontz
The Man 106
Kenny Moore
Running With Ghosts 112
race 117
Four-Minute Mile 118
Roger Bannister

Get the Hell Out of My Race and Give Me Those Numbers! 125
Kathrine Switzer
Me and Julio Down by the School Yard 143
Marc Bloom
The Dream Mile 168
Marty Liquori and Skip Myslenski
Duel in the Sun 178
John Brant
Mary vs. the Soviets 191
Frank Murphy
bonds 197
Chasing Justice 198
Kenny Moore
The Brotherhood 209
Rich Elliott
Someone to Run With 212
Sara Corbett
Team Hoyt Starts Again 219
John Brant
heart 231
The Battle of a Lifetime 232
Norman Harris
Through the Tunnel 238
Joan Benoit Samuelson with Sally Baker
But Only on Sunday: Ron Clarke 251
Kenny Moore
One One-Hundredth of a Second 257
Marla Runyan with Sally Jenkins
The American Dreamer 274
Dave Kuehls
In Pre’s Footsteps 283
Don Kardong
Toughest Miler Ever 289
Woody Woodburn
about the editor 295
biographical notes 296

 

《Runners on Running》作者简介：

Rich Elliott competed at Kansas University from 1968 to 1972, qualifying for the NCAA Division I national meets in both track and cross country. In 1971, he was the Big Eight Conference three-mile champion.

In 1976, Elliott was named Illinois Distance Coach of the Year while working at Willowbrook High School. He moved to Deerfield High School in 1977 and was an assistant coach with the state cross country championship team before becoming the program’s head coach for both cross country and track. Elliott coached at the high-school level for 12 years, producing a pair of All-Americans and several all-state athletes. During this time he also wrote The Competitive Edge: Mental Preparation for Distance Running, a book that Track and Field News magazine called “the best work on the subject” and “a modern classic.”

Elliott then worked for many years in educational publishing as a textbook editor and technology producer. He returned to coaching from 2008 to 2010 to head the men’s and women’s cross country teams at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. He is now a freelance writer and editor.

Elliott lives in Winnetka, Illinois, with his wife and three children.

Rich Elliott 另一本关于跑步的书籍：

The Competitive Edge: Mental Preparation For Distance Running_Richard Elliott_2008
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《Runners on Running》书籍评论：

Runners on Running, a collection of thirty-two essays, will appeal to a much wider audience than distance runners. It will resonate with all those who with grit and passion, heart and spirit, have struggled to reach a goal and found themselves in doing so. As the editor, Rich Elliott, states in the introduction: "It is imagination that fuels the distance runner." This anthology celebrates the literature of distance running and the creators of that literature. As the editor points out, world-class runners and master writers have much in common: discipline, patience, hard work, and devotion.

Among the writers included are Kenny Moore, Amby Burfoot, Kathrine Switzer, and George Sheehan. Frequently, an essay will linger in the mind long after a first reading. For example, Kenny Moore's "Chasing Justice" describes the lifelong bond Moore and marathoner Mamo Wolde forged when Moore pulled up lame in the Munich Olympic Marathon in 1972. Years later, Moore spearheaded the crusade to free his former competitor, unjustly wasting away in an Ethiopian prison. Moore describes Wolde's death simply and poignantly: "He died peacefully, as befits a marathoner, knowing the rightness of all things physical has an end." Like Moore's essay, others in this anthology have outstanding literary merit.

For example, savor the lyric beauty and philosophic depth of this passage from George Sheehan's "Running": "And there on the roads, I can pursue my perfection for the rest of my days, and finally, as his wife said of Kazantzakis dead at seventy-four, be mowed down in the first flower of my youth. "The fight, then, is never with age; it is with boredom, with routine, with the danger of not living at all. Then life will stop, growth will cease, learning will come to an end. You no longer become who you are. You begin to kill time or live it without or purpose. Everything that is happiness, all that is excitement, whatever you know of joy and delight, will evaporate. Life will be reduced to a slow progression of days and weeks and months. Time will become an enemy instead of an ally." "When I run, I avoid all this. I enter a world where time stops, where now is a fair sample of eternity."

 

Runners on Running is a masterpiece of its kind. The editor, Rich Elliott, clearly knows a great deal about the history and legends of his sport, and he possesses a keen eye for top quality writing. This anthology will appeal to runners of all ages and of all skill levels, but it should appeal as well to non-runners who enjoy reading about the trials and triumphs of the human spirit.

The 32 selections are thoughtfully organized, so that the anthology achieves an orchestrated rhythm. We read Roger Bannister's understated account of his four-minute mile, which ends in glory: "We shared a place where no man had yet ventured--secure for all time." Then we shift to the chaos that greeted Kathrine Switzer's historic run in the hitherto all-male Boston Marathon. Next, we move to a more obscure, but equally memorable race, as Marc Bloom reconstructs one of the great high school relays of American track history. Then we move to two legendary races: the brash Marty Liguori fighting his peerless rival Jim Ryun, and the relatively obscure Dick Beardsley fighting to outpace Alberto Salazar, running at the peak of his career in the 1982 Boston Marathon.

Yet this is not simply an anthology about the famous and the celebrated. We read about how running can forge bonds, from the friendships that Sara Corbett found while running to the loyalty inspired by coach Jim White in the dusty impoverished town of McFarland, California. And we read about a loving father, Dick Hoyt, whose running began with a 5-mile race where he pushed his son Rick in his wheelchair. In over 30 years since then, father and son have participated in over 200 triathlons and 27 Boston Marathons. Simply put, this anthology is a triumph.

 

I just got this book in the mail this morning. I thought I should finish it before writing a review, but I just couldn't wait! I am just half-way through but I wanted to shout out to all runners to get this book now - you'll love it! For younger and active runners, there is abundant wisdom and inspiration to propel your running career. The book may be even more fun for the aging former runners in the crowd. If your knees feel like mine, you know who you are! For me, it is a bit of a walk down memory lane - telling skinny little kid war stories. Some of them are fun. Some of them bring a tear to your eye. All of them are worth reading now!

 

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