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First Marathons: Personal Encounters with the 26.2-Mile Monster »

Authors: Gail Kislevitz
ISBN-13: 9781891369117, ISBN-10: 1891369113
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Breakaway Books
Date Published: September 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Gail Kislevitz

Book Synopsis

Oral histories of 37 people on the experience of running one's first marathon. Includes great runners like Bill Rodgers, Grete Waitz, and Ted Corbitt, and ordinary people from all walks of life. The result is a fascinating, emotional, multi-dimensional look at running the marathon, preparing one for the event far better than any training book ever could.

Runners World UK

One of the scariest things about running a marathon for the first time isn t the distance, the muscle pain, the chafing or the blisters. It s not knowing what s going to happen. That s why this disarmingly honest collection of first-time accounts is so refreshing.

	Acknowledgments	9
	Introduction	11
	Sister Act	15
	Business as usual	25
	The Marathon as Metaphor	33
	A Brash Beginner	39
	Be all that You can be	45
	Exorcising through Exercise	51
	How not to Run a Marathon	57
	The Path Less Taken	63
	Blood is Thicker than Water	69
	A Willingness to Suffer	79
	Against all Odds	89
	Something all my Own	97
	Ultra Man	103
	Teaching the Golden Rule, Step by Step	109
	My Worst Nightmare	117
	Always the Coach	125
	Yes, That's Me, and I'm Walkin'	131
	A Nun on the Run	139
	One Foot in the Grave	147
	The Running Life	155
	On the Run to a New Life	161
	Running on Empty	167
	Breaking Down Barriers	175
	Kenyan Kinetics	187
	Suffering the Sins of Neglect	195
	Any Idiot can Run a Marathon	203
	Rebel with a Cause	211
	Me and the Marathon	219
	Beethoven's Twenty-Sixth	225
	The Mother of all Marathons	231
	My New Passion	239
	Who Wants Steinfeld?	245
	A Victory for Humanity	253
	Outrunning Demons	263
	Cool Controlled Grace	269
	A two-for-one Victory	275
	50 and D.C.	283
	Advice from Top Coaches	290
	Favorite Songs to Run By	297
	Glossary of Some Basic Running Terms	298
	Recommended Books	302
	Some Useful Web Sites	302
	Lessons Learned	303