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The Boston
Marathon
The First Century of the World's Premier Running Event
By Tom Derderian
ISBN 0-88011-479-7
634 Pages packed with information and stories from what many
regard as the best marathon in the World.
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The Boston Marathon
By Joe Falls
ISBN 0-02-028520-5
Almost 200 pages giving a history of this most famous race. |
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The Complete
Book of Running
By James E Fixx
ISBN 0-207-14708-6
Over 300 pages to probably the most influential running book of
all time. Jim Fixx can rightly claim to have been one of the
fathers of the running boom and this was the bible of that era.
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Jim Fixx's
Second Book of Running
The all new companion volume to the Complete Book of Running
By James E Fixx
ISBN 0-207-14496-6
A slimmer 217 page 'New Testament' to Fixx's runners Bible.
Nowhere near as influential but the WA Marathon Club cops a
mention in the Directory of Australian Running Clubs!
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The Competitive
Runner's Handbook
The complete training program for all distance running.
By Bob Glover and Pete Schuder
ISBN 0-14-046565-0
Nearly 550 pages to a book that makes good it's claims. This
really is a very complete guide to setting up your training
programme (even if they spell it a funny way!)
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The World of
Marathons
By Sandy Treadwell
ISBN 0-02-028520-5
A coffee table book of the World's great Marathons, one Marathon
for every mile of the event! Maps, race descriptions and histories
of the races. A great book to dip into.
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Running Injuries
How to prevent and overcome them
By Tim Noakes and Stephen Granger
ISBN 0-19-571384-2
176 pages packed with information about those annoying injuries
that keep us off the road. Some great advice and stories from the
top runners too. You won't feel nearly so bad when you read the
sort of mistakes some of the world's elite athletes make.
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Flanagan's Run
By Tom McNab
ISBN 0-340-32802-9
A novel about a fictional road race from one coast of America to
another. Many runners have claimed this book has inspired them and
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The Science of
Track and Field Athletics
By Howard & Rosemary Payne
ISBN 0-7207-1288-2
The authors have presented the scientific bases of track and field
athletics in a comprehensible and understandable way. Worth
looking at for the fashions. The book is illustrated with photos
and line drawings.
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An Evening with
Johnners
By Brian Johnston
ISBN 185225-2537
Alright, so this is not a book about running. But runners have to
relax sometime, and this is a great book to relax with. It
contains memories and anecdotes from his life and cricket, told by
the master raconteur himself. If you like cricket, you'll love
this book.
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Runners Blood
By James.J.Fischer
ISBN 1-891231-21-9
This is a novel about cheating in sports. The protagonist, an
Irish middle distance runner must uncover an entirely new way of
enhancing athletic performance to have a chance in Sydney. The
climax occurs in the marathon. Visit Runners
Blood for a full synopsis on the book and read about the
author
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