Why run a marathon? How much experience is needed? How to run in a healthy way?... The popular runner Javier Sánchez-Beascoechea, after completing 25 marathons around the world, gathers in this book the practical aspects of this passion for marathons that has become a way of life for him. ¿Por qué correr un maratón? ¿Cuánta experiencia necesitamos para participar en uno? ¿Correr por ritmo, por pulso, por sensaciones... o por vatios? Cómo...

Chronicles the life of the Olympic athlete, from his youth in a Hopi village in Arizona to his forced education at a New Mexico boarding school and his subsequent athletic successes, including medaling at the 1912 Olympics.

"Bryony Gordon was not a runner. A loafer, a dawdler, a drinker, a smoker, yes. A runner, no. Yet somehow, as she began to recover from the emotional rollercoaster of laying her life bare in her mental health memoir Mad Girl, she started to realise that getting outside, moving her body and talking to others for whom life was also an occasional challenge, might actually help her. Going for a run might not banish her sadness but at least it might show...

Profiles the lives and careers of Evelyn Ashford, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Gail Devers, and seven other Olympic gold medalists who won the 100, 200, or 400 meter dash.

Emilio and Sandy need to 'get out' before it is too late. Growing up working at his tyrannical stepfather's gas station, Emilio discovers that he has the ability to run fast. With the hope of a scholarship, he sees an opportunity to leave his hometown, along with his troubles, and take Sandy with him. But a tragic flaw, a violent streak he possesses, induced by exposure to gasoline vapors, will all but destroy his best-laid plans. Hope flows through...