Running category: 839 books
Everything to Live For
The Inspirational Story of Turia Pitt
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Everything to Live For is the story of one young womans survival against extraordinary odds, a testament to the human spirit. In September 2011, Turia Pitt, a beautiful 25-year-old mining engineer working her dream job in the far north of Western Australia, entered an ultra-marathon race that would...
by Paul C. Clerici
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Founded in 1973, the Greater Boston Track Club had humble beginnings but was quick to establish itself as a force of competitive runners. Initially an all-inclusive club of sprinters, hurdlers and middle-distance runners, the club evolved under the brilliant leadership of Coach Bill Squires. The club...
by Brian L. Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2008
Make your workouts count with the breakthrough system that synchronizes your energy levels with your training effort. Instead of fighting your body to finish a workout just because it’s written on the calendar, choose the most effective workout from 5K and 10K Training based on your body’s capacity...
The Boy Who Runs
The Odyssey of Julius Achon
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
In the tradition of Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation by way of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run, this is the inspirational true story of the Ugandan boy soldier who became a world-renowned runner, then found his calling as director of a world-renowned African children’s charity.
“Julius...
by Ben Greenfield
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Are you ready to be inspired? This book contains amazing tales of extreme endurance from athletes around the globe. These aren't pros or elites these are everyday people who decided to step outside their comfort zone and attempt to achieve the extraordinary. You'll get to read stories that include:
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How Far Can You Go?
My 25-Year Quest to Walk Again
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
An inspirational memoir by a man who became an elite wheelchair athlete after suffering a catastrophic spinal injury and who finally walked again 25 years after his accident.
After two years of intense physical therapy following his crippling accident, John Maclean set a new course for himself...
by Jill Homer, Tim Hewitt
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
In North America's Last Frontier, there are still untrammeled wildernesses where a man can stand alone in a region the size of entire states, where deep cold quiets every whisper of life and vast emptiness reigns. Alaska remains a mysterious place that, thanks to reality television, has captured...
by Malcolm Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
This is the true story of 3 marathons and an odyssey. The Athens marathon is held in November each year. Home of the marathon, home of the legend. It is run on the original marathon course of the 1896 Olympics from Marathon to Athens, finishing in the Panathinaikon Olympic Stadium in the centre of Athens....
The Coolest Race on Earth
Mud, Madmen, Glaciers, and Grannies at the Antarctica Marathon
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Chronicling the world's most difficult race through the eyes of one who ran it, this vivid and humorous memoir shares the adventures of inspiring contestants-including a wheelchair-bound runner and three record-breaking grandmothers-as they trek across the daunting terrain of extinct volcanoes, craggy...
The Road to Sparta
Reliving the Ancient Battle and Epic Run That Inspired the World's Greatest Footrace
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The Road to Sparta is the story of the 153-mile run from Athens to Sparta that inspired the marathon and saved democracy, as told—and experienced—by ultramarathoner and New York Times bestselling author Dean Karnazes.
In 490 BCE, Pheidippides ran for 36 hours straight from Athens to Sparta...
Duel in the Sun
Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
The 1982 Boston Marathon was great theater: Two American runners, Alberto Salazar, a celebrated champion, and Dick Beardsley, a gutsy underdog, going at each other for just under 2 hours and 9 minutes. Neither man broke. The race merely came to a thrilling, shattering end, exacting such an enormous...
C.C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race
The True Story of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run Across America
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Among the runners of C. C. Pyle's First Annual International Transcontinental Foot Race were an assortment of underdogs, including twenty-year-old Oklahoman and part Cherokee Andy Payne, who wanted to win over the girl of his dreams and pay off the mortgage on his family's farm; Paul "Hardrock"...
Spartan Fit!
30 Days. Transform Your Mind. Transform Your Body. Commit to Grit.
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
From the best-selling author of Spartan Up! a complete 30-day workout and diet plan to help you reach peak performance
Joe De Sena designed the Spartan races to test overall conditioning: strength, flexibility, endurance, and speed. His signature take-no-prisoners approach to achieving physical...
Obstacle Race Training
How to Beat Any Course, Compete Like a Champion and Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
If you are stuck in a cubicle or trapped in an urban jungle, congested traffic and crowds are your daily obstacles. The beauty of obstacle course racing is that it gets you out of your everyday routine.
Margaret Schlachter, the creator of the Dirt In Your Skirt blog, is one the leading competitors...