The Looniness of the Long Distance Runner
An Unfit Londoner's Attempt
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2001
Summary
The Looniness of the Long Distance Runner is one comparatively unfit 39-year old Londoner’s humorous account of his attempt to run the New York marathon from scratch. (He chose the pre-Thanksgiving race in the Big Apple to avoid adding to his ordeal by having to train during the British winter.) Inspired by the charity running of friends, Russell Taylor set himself the challenge of doing what Pheidippides first had done. But to spare himself the post-event trauma of trying to extract money fr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780233050096 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0233050094 |
| Author: | Russell F. Taylor |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2001 |
| Weight: | 540g |
| Dimensions: | 160mm x 236mm x 28mm |
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About The Author
Russell F. Taylor
Russell Taylor is the copy-writing arm of the partnership that produces the “Alex” cartoon strip in The Daily Telegraph. He enjoys sport, but until setting himself this challenge, not quite enough to get him out of the pub and into the gym. He lives in Muswell Hill in north London and also writes TV music. In addition to an annual collection of Alex cartoons, he has also written humorous books on Russia and the City of London.
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