by Keven Shevels and Stuart Ferguson I was lucky enough to receive a free copy of the latest offering in the ”Run Off-Road” series by TrailGuides: “The Mountain Marathon Book”, so let me share my impressions with my fellow mountain runners. This 224 page tome clearly aims to be the definitive treatise on the topic…
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A Mountain Runners Guide to Snowdonia
(author: Jim Kelly) It was early December, and Santa, in the form of TrailGuides editor Keven Shevels, arrived early, a crisp new copy of A Mountain Runner’s Guide to Snowdonia landing on my doorstep. I had become acquainted with Keven purchasing the company’s pocket training guides on all things off-road running which proved very popular prizes at IMRA races in 2008 and…
Joss
(author: Keith Richardson) Years ago when reading Feet in the Clouds it was hard to forget the amazing tale of ‘Iron Joss’, indeed the story laid out by Askwith created a great appetite to learn more about “the life and times of the legendary Lake District fell runner and shepherd Joss Naylor” as Keith Richardson’s new book is sub-titled. Simon Fairmaner,…
Cross-Country Running by Jeff Galloway
(author: Jeff Galloway) I had some hopes for this book having been disappointed with both cross-country books I had bought up to this point. So far only Lydiard’s chapter on cross-country in “Running with Lydiard” has done this great discipline justice in writing. Sadly, Galloway’s glossy high-end production contains little substance and holds far too many…
Running with Lydiard
(authors: Garth Gilmour and Arthur Lydiard) Perhaps the fact that I have consumed several other Lydiard books and articles cloud my view, but I found “Running with Lydiard” the clearest, most precise and focused of the Lydiard books. As always, you simply lean back and enjoy the real-life examples and brusque prose of the old…
A Cold Clear Day
(author: Frank Murphy) This self-styled “athletic biography” tells the story of the marathon career of Leonard Graves Edelen better known simply as “Buddy”. Few who deserve to be remembered so well have been forgotten as widely, so the next time you raise a cheer to an over-rated modern sports performer, consider “Buddy” Edelen who died…
Bowerman and the Men of Oregon
(author: Kenny Moore) When I put down this book, I was awe-struck by it’s epic scope taking the reader from the early Bowerman family’s settling of Oregon through half a century of Olympics, the growth of Nike out of nowhere, the tragic life and death of Steve Prefontaine and a comprehensive history of the athletic…
