Life at These Speeds

10 best books like Life at These Speeds (Jeremy Jackson): Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder, Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon, Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine, Chariots of Fire, Again to Carthage, A Race Like No Other: 26.2 Miles Through the Streets of New York, Feet in the Clouds: A Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession, My Life on the Run: The Wit, Wisdom, and Insights of a Road Racing Icon, I Run, Therefore I Am--Nuts!, To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)

AuthorKenny Moore
ISBN1594861900
The first biography of the legendary track coach, and founder of Nike, who had an unparalleled impact on the sport of running

During his tenure as track coach at the University of Oregon from 1949 through 1972, Bill Bowerman won 4 national team titles, trained dozens of milers to break the 4-minute...
AuthorJohn Brant
ISBN1594862621
John Brant re-creates the tense drama of the 1982 Boston Marathon—and the powerful forces of fate that drove these two athletes in the years afterwards
"One was a humble farm boy from Minnesota. The other was the most electrifying distance runner of his time. In 1982, they battled stride for stride...
Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine
AuthorTom Jordan
ISBN0875964575
For five years, no American runner could beat him at any distance over a mile. But at the age of 24, with his best years still ahead, long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine finally lost. Driving alone at night after a party, Prefontaine crashed his sports car, putting a tragic, shocking end to the life...
AuthorWilliam J. Weatherby
ISBN0060692820
The story of two men—Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell—who run not to run but to prove something to the world. They will sacrifice anything to achieve their goals, except their honor.

Two men, Abrahams and Liddell, one a Jew who runs to triumph over bigotry, the other a Scots missionary who...
AuthorJohn L. Parker Jr.
ISBN1891369776
John L. Parker, Jr.’s first novel, Once a Runner, is the cult novel for runners. Self-published in the late 1970s, and for years sold out of the trunk of the author’s car at running events, it went on to sell over 100,000 copies and achieve legendary status among runners.

It perfectly captured...
A Race Like No Other: 26.2 Miles Through the Streets of New York
AuthorLiz Robbins
ISBN0061373133
"A Race Like No Other" is a narrative based on the November 4, 2007 race, but it is timeless in its themes. Acclaimed "New York Times" sportswriter Liz Robbins captures the enormity of the New York City Marathon through the prism of five representative athletes and the experiences that brought them to...
Feet in the Clouds: A Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession
AuthorRichard Askwith
ISBN1845130820
Exploring the world of fell-running—to run the ancient, wild landscape and stay a hero within one’s own valley—this portrait of one of the few sports to have remained implacably amateur and utterly true to its roots details the passionate ambitions of those who participate in one of the oldest...
My Life on the Run: The Wit, Wisdom, and Insights of a Road Racing Icon
AuthorBart Yasso
ISBN1594869413
Dubbed the "Mayor of Running," Bart Yasso is one of the best-known figures in the sport, but few people know why he started running competitively, how it changed his life, or how his brush with a crippling illness nearly ended his career a decade ago. With insight and humor, My Life on the Run chronicles...
I Run, Therefore I Am--Nuts!
AuthorBob Schwartz
ISBN0736040358

I Run, Therefore I Am--Nuts! takes a funny look at the peculiarities, quirks, and obsessions of runners of all abilities. Whether you fall in the middle of the pack, up near the front of the pack, or so far from any semblance of a pack that you're wondering if everyone went home already, you'll find...
To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)
AuthorMartin Dugard
Now with a new introduction and additional stories accumulated in the eight years since its original publication, To Be a Runner is a fresh and exciting update on a running classic. With an exuberant mix of passion, insight, instruction, and humor, bestselling author and lifelong runner Martin Dugard...
Going Long: Legends, Oddballs, Comebacks & Adventures
AuthorDavid Willey
ISBN1605295337
For more than 40 years, Runner's World magazine has been the world's leading authority on running—bringing its readers the latest running advice and some of the most compelling sports narratives ever told. From inspirational stories such as "A Second Life"(the story of Matt Long, the FDNY firefighter...
AuthorWill Leitch
ISBN1595140697
Everything comes easy for Tim Temples. He’s got a sweet summer job, lots of love from the ladies, and parties with his high school buddies. Why does he need to go to college?

Then Tim falls hard for Helena—a worldly and mysterious twenty-two year-old. Their relationship opens his eyes to...
AuthorDave Cousins
ISBN9780192745
Meet Oz . . . he's got a talent for trouble but his heart's always in the right place (well, nearly always).

Uprooted from his friends and former life, Oz finds himself stranded in the sleepy village of Slowleigh. When a joke backfires on the first day at his new school, Oz attracts the attention...
AuthorTammar Stein
ISBN0375830235
He went to school to learn how to kill me. The Israeli girl who ruined his life. Seven people were killed instead. A single mother of two. A computer programmer. Two college students. A grandmother and her four-year-old grandson sharing an ice cream. And Dov, my boyfriend, my heart, the man I wanted to...
AuthorMichael Rubens
ISBN0547612168
Isaac's parents have abandoned him for a trip to Italy in the final days before his bar mitzvah. And even worse, his hotheaded older brother, Josh, has been left in charge. An undefeated wrestler, MMA fighter, and bar brawler, Josh claims to be a "Son of the 613"—a man obedient to the six hundred...
AuthorAmby Burfoot
ISBN1579542638
"As runners, we all go through many transitions-- transitions that closely mimic the larger changes we experience in a lifetime. First, we try to run faster. Then we try to run harder. Then we learn to accept ourselves and our limitations, and at last, we can appreciate the true joy and meaning of running."

As...
Sub 4:00: Alan Webb and the Quest for the Fastest Mile
AuthorChris Lear
ISBN1594860564
For more than three decades, not one American schoolboy had run a sub-4:00 mile. Then, in January 2001, Alan Webb clocked a 3:59.86 mile, the fastest indoor U.S. high school mile ever. Just a few months later, the young track star achieved legendary status: he ran a 3:53.46 mile-a full 2 seconds faster...
The Four-Minute Mile
AuthorRoger Bannister
ISBN1592285813
After reading "The Perfect Mile", I wanted to get Roger Bannister's perspective, and read this book also.

I enjoyed this book immensely. Perhaps I enjoyed this book more than some of the other reviewers because I am a runner, and thus it had a lot of meaning for me. Here are a few things that I quoted...
Strides: Running Through History with an Unlikely Athlete
AuthorBenjamin Cheever
ISBN1594862281
Acclaimed novelist Benjamin Cheever--author of The Plagiarist, Famous After Death, and The Good Nanny--brings his buoyant literary style to this impassioned memoir about the sport that changed his life. From Pheidippides, who rant the first marathon in 490 BC--bringing news to Athens of the...
The Runner's Rule Book: Everything a Runner Needs to Know - And Then Some
AuthorMark Remy
ISBN1605295809
Every sport has rules. Running is no exception. If you're curious, just visit the Web site of USA Track & Field, the sport's governing body, where you'll find detailed dictates on everything from disqualification to bib-number placement to the caliber of the starter's pistol.

But what...
Run Faster from the 5K to the Marathon: How to Be Your Own Best Coach
AuthorBrad Hudson
ISBN0767928229
Do you want to run faster? Are you trying to peak for a particular race? Would you like to find your true running potential? Brad Hudson, former Olympic Trials marathoner and current coach to Olympians like Dathan Ritzenhein, will show you the way in this practical, reader-friendly guide. Hudson is...
The Extra Mile: One Woman's Personal Journey to Ultra-Running Greatness
AuthorPam Reed
ISBN1594864152
The story of the woman who shocked the running world in 2002 when she won the sport's most grueling race--135 miles from Death Valley to Mount Whitney--beating her closest competitor by 5 hours!

One year after her astonishing victory at the Badwater Ultramarathon, Pam Reed again made distance...
A Year and a Day
AuthorLeslie Pietrzyk
ISBN0060554665
Fifteen-year-old Alice dreams of her first kiss, has sleepovers, auditions for Our Town, and tries to pass high school biology. It's 1975, and at first look, her life would seem to be normal and unexceptional. But in the world that Leslie Pietrzyk paints, every moment she chronicles is revealed through...
The Cheer Leader
AuthorJill McCorkle
ISBN1565120019
Jo Spencer is a girl who knows what to be and how to be it-straight-A student, cheerleader, May Queen, popular and cute and virginal, and in perfect control. But halfway through her first year in college in the early seventies, her carefully normal life explodes and she comes completely undone. In The...
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