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The Lure of Long Distances

Why We Run

by Robin Harvie
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Robin Harvie was a fairly ordinary runner. He ran his first marathon after a bet. Then he found that although he couldn't run fast, he could run long distances — very long. A casual hobby turned into a 120-miles-a-week obsession, and a training route along the River Thames morphed into a promise to himself that he would tackle the oldest and toughest footrace on earth: the Spartathlon from Athens to Sparta. This race, a recreation of Pheidippides's legendary journey, is 150 miles long, crosses two mountain ranges, and is the toughest race on the ultradistance runner's calendar. It isn't at all ordinary. Harvie's experience — from the mundanity of daily training routes to the extreme tests of the desert's scorching heat and the darkest hours of the night — reveals the profoundly intoxicating experience of running, and the ways in which every mile taken is both a step further into the unknown and a pace deeper into the self.

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    April 26, 2011

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      • ISBN: 9781610390224

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      • ISBN: 9781610390224
      • File size: 409 KB

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    • English

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