Staying The Course: A Runner's Toughest Race - Softcover

Beardsley, Dick; Anderson, Maureen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816637598 ISBN 13: 9780816637591

Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

For a moment Dick Beardsley became the most famous runner in the world by losing a race. In the 1982 Boston Marathon, Beardsley, foiled by a motorcycle that cut him off, finished two seconds behind Alberto Salazar in one of the most memorable contests in marathon history. Staying the Course recounts that race and the difficult years that followed, including his recovery from a near-fatal farm accident, his subsequent addiction to painkillers, and a public arrest for forging prescriptions. His story of overcoming obstacles speaks to anyone who loves competition, who has survived catastrophe, or who has pursued a seemingly impossible goal.

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Dick Beardsley is a professional speaker, fishing guide, and radio announcer. He still holds the records for Grandma's Marathon in Duluth and the Napa Valley Marathon. Maureen Anderson is a writer and award-winning radio journalist. She is coauthor with Jon Hovde of Left for Dead: A Second Life after Vietnam (Minnesota, 2005).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0816637598
• ISBN 13: 9780816637591
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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