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Starting time your review of A Race Like No Other: 26.2 Miles Through the Streets of New York

More than like three.5 stars. I really appreciated hearing about the race as I'grand near to run information technology. Great gear up - each chapter is a mile. While I liked reading about the aristocracy runners I felt there was besides much. I liked the stories of the amateur 'regular' runners much more compelling.

Jul 29, 2012 Katie rated it actually liked it

Neat book about the New York City Marathon. Different "Born to Run," I'yard not sure how much this book would entreatment to not-runners, but as a runner I couldn't put it down. It was one of those nonfiction books that is the perfect blend of personal anecdotes and history of the race, which really kept me engaged.

The author follows personal stories everywhere from the elevation aristocracy athletes to people who finished in over 6 hours, and everybody in between. I liked how it was structured, how there was essent

Cracking volume about the New York City Marathon. Dissimilar "Built-in to Run," I'm not sure how much this volume would appeal to non-runners, but as a runner I couldn't put information technology downwards. It was one of those nonfiction books that is the perfect blend of personal anecdotes and history of the race, which really kept me engaged.

The author follows personal stories everywhere from the superlative elite athletes to people who finished in over vi hours, and everybody in between. I liked how it was structured, how in that location was substantially a chapter for each mile, and each mile described both the actual geography at that location plus things that happened to the diverse runners at that location (such as the street entertainers that were at sure points, elite runners strategically passing each other, or how the crowds were at that point, etc.). Thoroughly entertaining read.

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October thirteen, 2009 Deanna rated it did not like it

I have a very large drove of books about running. I dear books near running. This is the least compelling specimen of the genre that I've come beyond in a while, though maybe less wearisome to someone who doesn't follow running every bit closely. I have a very large collection of books most running. I love books about running. This is the to the lowest degree compelling specimen of the genre that I've come across in a while, though perchance less dull to someone who doesn't follow running equally closely. ...more than

Jul 21, 2022 Melissa rated it actually liked it

I loved reading the mile-by-mile stories of various power-leveled runners. This book definitely got me fifty-fifty more excited to run the NYC marathon!

Loved every infinitesimal of it, it makes me want to run the race even more than!

Weber explained that paying attention to running or engaging in strenuous exercise is a distraction from studying the Torah. Withal, two seminal Jewish scholars, Rabbi Akiba in the 2d century and Moses Maimonides, the 12th-century philosopher, advocated taking intendance of one's body.

In a quarter century of marathons, this dramatic change in gender trends was made possible and inspired past 3 women, each a sometime winner of the New York Metropolis Marathon, each a pioneer of the sport: Nina Kuscsik,

Weber explained that paying attention to running or engaging in strenuous exercise is a distraction from studying the Torah. Still, two seminal Jewish scholars, Rabbi Akiba in the second century and Moses Maimonides, the twelfth-century philosopher, advocated taking care of i's trunk.

In a quarter century of marathons, this dramatic change in gender trends was made possible and inspired by three women, each a former winner of the New York City Marathon, each a pioneer of the sport: Nina Kuscsik, Kathrine Switzer and Grete Waitz.

It is as if the runners today, having passed through near nine miles of exuberant fans, clarion music and colorful signs, travel on Bedford Avenue into the nineteenth century. The community of the ultra-Orthodox Satmar sect lives along Bedford Avenue. Children peek out of the windows of overcrowded apartments or stand on the stoops to see the Marathon traipse by their block. Men wear black hats, long beards with hanging sidelocks (peius) and tzitzit (prayer shawl fringes that serve as symbolic reminders of faith) from their belt loops. The women have children at their long skirts. Children do non cheer or hold signs, though a few young boys and girls offering cups of water.

The New York Road Runners chief, Mary Wittenberg, is aware of the implication that charity entries are creating a pay-to-run image, which is one reason she struggled with the thought for a long time.

Powering their chairs solely with their arms and hands, these athlete compete around the globe as ofttimes as 2, even three races a month merely to earn a living.

New York becomes the world'southward largest medal stand as people preen around the city, or in airports, showing off their prize. Information technology is the fundamental to an exclusive club, an instant status symbol, license to walk slowly, swallow plentifully, celebrate, groan and grin.

The Virginia Beach Marathon, in a sense, volition seem almost "too normal," she will report. "No lottery, no four-plus-hour expect at Fort Wadsworth, no eavesdropping on animated conversations in other languages, no cannon, no people shamelessly peeing off a bridge, no five boroughs, no Olympic trials, no super-elites, no crowds that virtually scare you with their cheering, no Stanley Rygor, no Cardinal Park, and, they only manus you your medal, no put information technology around your sweaty, deserving neck!"

Although Radcliffe's success affords her and her husband a comfortable lifestyle in revenue enhancement-free Monaco, when her feet striking the New York pavement and her caput starts nodding, it is business as usual for her.

Why - and how - does a professional athlete, out of the running for the but two real prizes, keep running? She finds someone to pass.

Jelena: "It was a very difficult moment because, thirty seconds earlier, I felt so skilful feelings. I was so strong and then - irk! - I felt my liver spasm."

In 1969, Fred Lebow ran his offset route race in the Bronx, a v-miler, which consisted of 11 laps effectually Yankee Stadium. He as well ran his start marathon in the Bronx, the 1970 Cherry Tree Marathon. While dodging cars and children who were throwing stones, he decided it was time to put on a marathon in Central Park, where the roads at to the lowest degree could be closed.

Jelena Prokopcuka (correct), carrying a vial of anti-inflammatory liquid for precaution confronting a stitch in her side [...]

Since 1993, the London Marathon has e'er had the highest number of runners participating for charity among all international marathons - close to 78 percent in 2007.

She feels the same way whether she's running in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains in Albuquerque, New United mexican states, on the soaring trails of the Pyrenees or with her begetter in the Delamere Forest behind her family unit dwelling in Cheshire, England.

Radcliffe has had most as many injuries as trophies in her career. From stress fractures to hernias, exercise-induced asthma to anemia to hematomas, she has had it all. Her body is not a temple; it is a hospital.

She ran twice a day through the first five months of her pregnancy - 75 minutes in the morning and xxx to 45 minutes in the evening. Following her dr.'due south orders, she was careful not to let her heart rate exceed 160 beats per minute, as opposed to her usual maximum heart rate of 190 while training.

Ramaala has placed the exact same pair of orthotics in his racing flats since he began his career in 1995, and they are virtually worn to the foam tread by now. Yellow and white strips of electrical record bind the torn pieces of telephone book pages which serve to pad these once-molded shoe inserts. (Dr. Scholl'southward meets MacGyver.) Ramaala's left leg is a couple centimeters or and then shorter than his right leg, and his concrete therapist in Johannesburg - who is as unconventional every bit Ramaala - constructed his orthotics to compensate.

In Republic of latvia, it is the custom to requite processed and flowers for a altogether.

Three months after at the Millrose Games indoor track meet in New York, Goucher wins the women's mile wearing a titanium necklace. Yep, she will admit with a sheepish grin: "I got it because of Paula."

Around Radcliffe's cervix is the thin gold chain her mother gave her. It sits under an elastic titanium necklace, a production she endorses that is designed to restore equilibrium and improve blood flow.

[...] Radcliffe is wearing a crimson ribbon, as per her routine. She has fastened 1 to her racing uniform since 1999 to protestation what she believes is the sport'south inadequate testing for blood doping, whereby athletes illegally boost the blood's oxygen with erythropoietin (or EPO).

Radcliffe too wears a strip on her nose to assist her breathing; she has exercise-induced asthma.

Hunkeler's get-go race back afterward the 2006 accident came on September 5 at the Osaka Globe Championships, when she finished second in the one,500 meters to Canada'southward Chantal Petitclerc (who is likewise competing in today's race).

A full-time, top-level wheelchair professional person tin earn enough from prize money and endorsements - simply over half dozen figures - to make a living. Merely dissimilar an elite runner, who usually runs just two marathons a twelvemonth, plus a handful of smaller races, wheelchair athletes compete every bit many equally 20 times a year.

One woman, Sister Mary Gladys, a 75-year-sometime nun from Connecticut, competes in her 20-fifth New York City Marathon powering a mitt crank because she can no longer run or walk due to arthritis.

Noakes used Ramaala as an example during his inspirational speech to the South African rugby team before the Springboks left for the 2007 Rugby Globe Cup.

Lel lives in the temperate and lush Rift Valley of Kenya, in a secluded area in western Republic of kenya that is a loosely incorporated hamlet named Kimngeru.

Wami grew up in north-central Ethiopia, far from the southern highlands of the Arsi region that spawned the champions Tulu, Gebrselassie and the middle-distance star, Kenenisa Bekele. Her mountainous village of Chacha is about 75 miles northeast of Addis Ababa.

In a country where women are still trying to suspension out of their traditionally subservient roles, Tulu, who is five years older than Wami, empowered a new generation of Ethiopian runners. Fatuma Roba won the Olympic golden medal in the marathon in the 1996 Atlanta Games; Wami herself won a statuary medal in the x,000 meters at Atlanta.

Tulu became the kickoff black African woman to win an Olympic gold medal, in the 10,000 meters, at the 1992 Barcelona Games.

Past 8 a.thousand., the volunteers have stirred the powdered Gatorade mix with water. They accept poured Gatorade and water into cups, stacked three tiers high, 200 cups in each tier, co-ordinate to Marathon protocol. Once the inspector from the Road Runners leaves, even so, Santoli instructs his volunteers to stack the cups in five tiers, separated by cardboard. "If yous practice information technology only three tiers, the water volition all exist gone," he explains. He will prepare 57,000 cups of water and Gatorade today.

The twenty-four hour period actually began at midnight, when the Marathon organizers dropped off seventy-two tables. Santoli went dorsum to sleep until iv a.k., when the shipment of water and Gatorade arrived. Santoli's first thought was to make certain people would not steal the supplies. Early in the morning, he saw a man who must have been airtight to 70 years old walk off with 2 cases of h2o, holding six jugs each. Walk might me too strong a word. The man hobbled, sweating profusely, and shoved the cases into his car. When Santoli confronted the man, he denied information technology.

As Pam veers in toward a water station, she tries to slow down long enough to grab a cup, but she feels the force of the runners pushing her from behind her. The momentum sends her sprawling awkwardly toward the table, about to certain injury.

They might also witness men emptying their bladders in a steady stream off the side of the bridge. Light-green bib runners on the lower deck beware.

Paula Radcliffe, Gete Wami, Jelena Prokopcuka and Catherine Ndereba are the almost decorated in the field today.

Radcliffe and her competitors surge to the peak of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the highest peak on the course today, at 260 feet above sea level and a dizzying 225 feet in a higher place shimmering New York Harbor.

Her eye, which will pound out a steady 180 beats per minute, in the next ii-plus hours on the course, is revving like an engine from its resting charge per unit of 38 beats per minute.

The items discarded on the bridge, still, volition likely not be given to charity. In order for clothes to exist donated, they must exist done. The volume of article of clothing, mixed with trash and even runners' urine, is just too great for the Department of Sanitation trucks to split up earlier the bridge must reopen in two hours.

When the New York Burn down Department boats spray water in three fountains of ruby, white and blue at the outset of the race, it is a sight so crawly that not even a camera lens can capture its calibration. Only the runner on the bridge tin can truly appreciate its grandeur.

Giovanni da Verrazano was the first European to canvass through these narrow waters in 1527.

By 9:30 a.m., runners are in line, stretching, laughing, befriending strangers, dancing to music from headphones, trying to stay warm, trying to stay positive, nervously bouncing on the balls of their anxiety, some even squatting and flushing their bodily fluids correct in that location on the bridge as the minutes tick downwardly to a 24-hour interval of sure torture.

Professional person runners, even with their 140-mile training weeks, their tolerance for pain and their extremely regimented schedules, are not then different from the recreational athletes.

Professional runners pound the uneven pavement for more two hours, taking an boilerplate of 190 steps per minute. Elite athletes volition strike the ground almost 25,000 times during the course of the race.

Since Radcliffe did non run the last two years, Wami's primary competition today for the serial prize coin is Jelena Prokopcuka (pronounced pro-kup-CHU-ka), the two-time defending New York champion from Latvia.

Flocks of Italian-speaking runners stroll around in disposable oestrus-retaining polypropylene coveralls sold at the humming Marathon Expo in the days before the race [...]

Around the corner, a tent x times the size, with plastic windows lining its walls, offers ecumenical Christian services conducted by clerics who are themselves running the race. Cindy Peterson, who grew up Cosmic in Montreal, cannot discern whether there will be a Mass this morning. No affair; she is there anyway to keep warm.

A few feet from the curb of the main street heading into the start village, a small open tent holds some forty men and 5 women, swaying and praying. Jewish marathoners from effectually the globe spill out of the tent. Many drapery prayer shawls over their running outfits and wrap tefillin (black boxes holding biblical inscriptions) on the arm and the brow. Their mumbling grows to a crescendo at the morning minyan (a prayer gathering that traditionally had to accept at least 10 men), forming an intimate community within a community.

The long lines volition be elsewhere this yr - at the parking lot where runners drop off their official articulate plastic bags containing belongings non needed during the race; they will exist deposited at numbered UPS trucks that correspond to their bib numbers. In the orange drop-off area, there is a gridlock of almost ane hour, every bit runners waiting to drop numberless become caught in the exiting period of those who have already done so.

Each distinct area of the village has the same characteristics - a massive arc of corral-colored balloons, first aid stations, and kiosks for coffee, tea, bagels and hot water. Runners queue for their prerace sustenance, just no line takes longer than five minutes. Due to complaints from 2006 participants who waited in lengthy lines to use portable toilets, 309 more than were added in 2007 to the start village, bringing the full to 1,515.

When the fourth dimension comes, runners will continue to corrals that direct them to the starting line on the bridge. Runners with blue and orange bibs will offset on the bridge's upper deck, while those with green proceed to the lower deck.

Some runners are overjoyed to be hither, having gained automated entry later on non being chosen in the lottery three times in a row. Others were guaranteed entry by the fast qualifying times they ran in a marathon or half-marathon in the previous year.

Staten Island is the about overlooked of New York City's five boroughs, and the most suburban. Yet runners will spend as many (if non more than) hours waiting hither for the race to begin as they will running through the other four boroughs.

Somnambulant figures stride from the shuttle buses that had collected them at the Staten Isle Ferry terminal and traipse past him.

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Wow.

This book has always been on my bucket list (semi-aslope actually running the marathon) and I picked this up simply about a month before this year's marathon - my outset. I had wanted to finish information technology earlier race day but in the end, I took as well long and finished about 3 weeks afterward.

I'm glad I️ finished after I️ ran the race, really, because it allowed me to appreciate the stories in a different way. I was able to wink back to certain moments, especially during the last stretch of the race, a

Wow.

This volume has always been on my saucepan list (semi-aslope really running the marathon) and I picked this upward only nearly a month before this year'south marathon - my starting time. I had wanted to finish it before race day but in the end, I took likewise long and finished nigh iii weeks subsequently.

I'one thousand glad I️ finished after I️ ran the race, really, because it allowed me to capeesh the stories in a different mode. I was able to wink back to certain moments, particularly during the last stretch of the race, and retrieve exactly how I felt as I read the words describing this part of the grade.

The manner of writing isn't what I'm typically drawn to and is what took me longer to plow through just it'south undeniable how impactful and moving the private runners are, and information technology's all the more intensified when juxtaposed with the aristocracy athlete competitions recounted hither besides. I️ establish myself becoming emotional at certain points, specially before race mean solar day, as I️ related to many of the feelings these runners felt. I️ also enjoyed using this book as a grade preview, though sadly I wasn't great at remembering details while I was on the course myself.

Ultimately this was an amazing companion as race day approached, an immensely meaningful moment for me. I️t was incredible to see that I wasn't close to being alone in that feeling, every bit hundreds of runners felt the aforementioned way. This race is bigger than me, bigger than the elites, and bigger than any unmarried private. And it's that enormity that helps make it so incredibly special to so many people. This volume helped capture that feeling and elevated my already heightened emotions surrounding this special day.

Even though non-(Marathon) runners may not feel as strongly every bit I did or relate to this book in the same way, I would still recommend this to anyone who is an athlete, has overcome large obstacles in their life, or who simply needs a reminder of the will of humans. I️t WILL move you.

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I started reading this book while grooming for the 2017 TCS NYC Marathon to help me arrive the mindset, build excitement, and mentally prepare for the grueling NYC form. The book follows several runners (some elite professionals and others who are like me - average people looking to stop for one reason or another) as they brand their way through the 26.ii mile course. Each affiliate covers a mile and tells a bit of the story of each runner. It's an interesting mode to detail the marathon, though I started reading this book while training for the 2017 TCS NYC Marathon to assist me make it the mindset, build excitement, and mentally gear up for the grueling NYC grade. The book follows several runners (some elite professionals and others who are like me - boilerplate people looking to finish for one reason or another) as they make their way through the 26.2 mile course. Each chapter covers a mile and tells a scrap of the story of each runner. Information technology's an interesting way to item the marathon, though some of the backstories, peculiarly on the elite runners, went a petty long. I would rather have had more stories of the people who are function of the marathon--the regulars who stand on street corners, hold upwardly signs, have run several consecutive NYC marathons, or who were first-timers.

I also was really annoyed by a couple of falsehoods early on in the volume. The writer perpetuates the urban marathon myth that runners on the lower level of the Verrazano Bridge risk getting sprayed with urine when those on the upper level pee off the elevation. I've run the tiptop, and I've run the lesser, and I've seen neither pee-ers nor been sprayed. In fact, you risk an early DQ (disqualification) if you're caught peeing on the span. Can we please put that one to rest already?!?

I really don't think this book would concur any appeal to anyone who has not/isn't planning to run NYC. I don't even know that it would entreatment all that much to the regular runner--it's very NYC focused. Just if you lot are going to tackle the marathon, this is definitely a worthwhile read to assistance understand the grade (even if some of the references are a bit dated) and become yourself mentally ready to conquer it.

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Mar 03, 2017 Jenny rated it actually liked it

I actually listened to this one on audio twice. The first time, it ended and I realized information technology had gone so fast I must accept been distracted and missed some. Simply in listening again I realized I didn't really miss anything, and, yet, it entertained me all the same. I have always wanted to run this race (long before ever becoming a runner!) I had practical for the lottery this twelvemonth (didn't go far, unfortunately) and had been reading this to psyche myself up even more. The author breaks each chapter into I actually listened to this one on audio twice. The outset time, it ended and I realized it had gone so fast I must have been distracted and missed some. Just in listening once more I realized I didn't really miss annihilation, and, all the same, it entertained me notwithstanding. I have always wanted to run this race (long earlier ever condign a runner!) I had applied for the lottery this year (didn't get in, unfortunately) and had been reading this to psyche myself up even more. The author breaks each chapter into the number mile of the race. Some capacity focus on the history of the marathon, some on that specific location, some on the volunteers and spectators on the form, some on the lives of the amateur runners, and some on the lives of the professionals. Everyone has a different but awe inspiring experience in running this marathon. I idea information technology was put together smartly. Some of the personal stories did get a piddling long whereas almost of the people reading this would be more than interested in the running aspect of information technology. All the same, that might also make this book more relatable and I retesting for in-runners. Overall a very enjoyable read (listen). ...more

Oct 30, 2016 Bryan Hall rated it it was amazing

As good a book as y'all could write nigh the New York City Marathon. Robbins covers the class mile-by-mile, tracking a multifariousness of runners along the way. She goes into detail about the histories and personalities of the male and female elite runners, profiles several amateurs with inspirational stories, and fifty-fifty goes into the crowds to get a behind-the-scenes wait at some of the spectators, musicians, and volunteers that line the form. The history of the race is too covered extensively, but in As good a book equally you could write well-nigh the New York City Marathon. Robbins covers the grade mile-by-mile, tracking a variety of runners forth the way. She goes into detail about the histories and personalities of the male person and female elite runners, profiles several amateurs with inspirational stories, and fifty-fifty goes into the crowds to get a behind-the-scenes await at some of the spectators, musicians, and volunteers that line the course. The history of the race is also covered extensively, merely in a sort of meandering way that I retrieve makes it more interesting than a unproblematic, straightforward, thirty-folio block of text would be.

I retrieve this is a must-read for anyone who has run NYC or plans to. Whether y'all read it beginning to become an idea of what to look and to psych yourself upwards for the race, or read it after finishing to reminisce nigh your run, I feel this is a valuable addition to the feel. And even if you never desire to run a marathon, this is a dandy New York story.

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Apr 02, 2020 Raahil Modi rated it information technology was amazing

Having read this volume - information technology makes me want to run the New York City Marathon soon.

The story captures the 2007 race mile by mile, exploring different runners, at different times in their lifes, the level of hardships, the skillful, the bad and the extraordinaire.

It besides gives an interesting insight on New York Road Runners Team and their journey on how NYC Marathon became the All-time and the Biggest Marathon in the world.

There is a lot of interesting historical stuff (everything virtually Marathons, runner

Having read this book - it makes me want to run the New York City Marathon soon.

The story captures the 2007 race mile past mile, exploring different runners, at different times in their lifes, the level of hardships, the good, the bad and the extraordinaire.

It too gives an interesting insight on New York Road Runners Team and their journey on how NYC Marathon became the All-time and the Biggest Marathon in the globe.

In that location is a lot of interesting historical stuff (everything most Marathons, runners background and things about their lives, associations, competitions etc..); tiresome at times, however, the writing is fluid and the storyline is engaging.

It is always fascinating to know what motivates unlike runners to run a Marathon. This is i of the things I will accept abroad from this book.

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Dec 06, 2017 Susan rated it really liked information technology

I actually enjoyed this book for several reasons. The biggest is that if I ever decided I wanted to run a marathon, New York is probably the one I would want to run. (Except I am totally turned off by that 5 hour expect to commencement.) As well, based on the 2007 race, information technology was well before my interest in running so I wasn't familiar with most of the elites featured in the book. And obviously all the amateurs were unknown to me. Ms. Robbins did a terrific chore of combining the menstruation of the race with everyone's pe I actually enjoyed this book for several reasons. The biggest is that if I ever decided I wanted to run a marathon, New York is probably the ane I would want to run. (Except I am totally turned off by that 5 60 minutes expect to start.) Also, based on the 2007 race, it was well before my interest in running so I wasn't familiar with most of the elites featured in the volume. And obviously all the amateurs were unknown to me. Ms. Robbins did a terrific job of combining the flow of the race with everyone's personal stories. Truly an inspiring expect at running and the New York marathon. Merely, oh, that wait! ...more than

I really actually loved this book. I've read it before but don't appear to have reviewed information technology anywhere. Fun to run into my pre existing highlights on the library kindle re-create. When I start read this I wasn't a runner, and now the elites this book focused on are retired. Something special about reading this on a flying to England though with so much well-nigh Paula Radcliffe.
I liked that it focused on the city and the non elite athletes and volunteers as much equally telling the stories of how the elites came I really actually loved this volume. I've read it before but don't appear to have reviewed it anywhere. Fun to see my pre existing highlights on the library kindle copy. When I commencement read this I wasn't a runner, and at present the elites this book focused on are retired. Something special about reading this on a flight to England though with so much virtually Paula Radcliffe.
I liked that it focused on the metropolis and the non elite athletes and volunteers as much every bit telling the stories of how the elites came to be running this marathon Sunday. ...more

Aug 10, 2017 Jelena rated it did not like information technology

This book is a complete disappointment and reading it was an agonizing feel. It comprises of an endless row of anecdotes and yawn full stories with no clear narrative line or message. I bought the book while training for NYC marathon hoping to acquire most this epic race and the v boroughs, instead the volume offered a sus scrofa-pile of dull anecdotes that have no value in the NYC marathon context. I give the book zero stars.

Jul 29, 2018 Amy rated it it was amazing

A friend book this for a group of us running the 2017 NYC Marathon, some of united states, like myself, for our start marathon distance. I loved how the chapters were broken into miles to give you lot an idea of what to expect as you run the course. Afterwards reading this book I found myself equal parts terrified and excited to run 26.2 miles through the streets of NYC. Highly recommended for anyone running the NYC marathon!

Dec 31, 2018 Owen rated information technology really liked it

An enjoyable look at the 2007 New York City marathon. A marathon is run by many types of people. Here y'all get a story of the elite runners and others runners. If you're a run marathon, or run the NYC marathon, or know the places discussed in the book I think you lot'll discover it more enjoyable. And so maybe only 3 stars for some readers, and five stars for others. Virtually three.5 stars for me. Glad I read it. Pretty sure I won't read it once again. An enjoyable wait at the 2007 New York Metropolis marathon. A marathon is run by many types of people. Here you go a story of the elite runners and others runners. If you're a run marathon, or run the NYC marathon, or know the places discussed in the book I recall you'll find it more enjoyable. So perhaps but 3 stars for some readers, and five stars for others. Near iii.5 stars for me. Glad I read it. Pretty certain I won't read information technology once more. ...more

I thought it was a peachy book for anyone that appreciates the attempt to being the all-time you tin can be at whatsoever sport. As someone about to run the marathon I loved the breakdown of miles for each chapter. It was nice to read and the elites, though I too that went on a chip long. Loved the back stories of the different regular runners trying to accomplish something big for themselves or some else, and likewise the back stories of some of the volunteers. Very original.

I loved how the chapters each correlated with the 26.two miles of the marathon. Very clever.

I loved reading the stories of the 'regular people' runners; the woman who had just been released from prison, the young man who had simply finished handling for cancer. I was less interested in the stories of the professional runners. I wish the volume had focused less on them.

I loved how the chapters each correlated with the 26.ii miles of the marathon. Very clever.

I loved reading the stories of the 'regular people' runners; the woman who had merely been released from prison, the young man who had only finished treatment for cancer. I was less interested in the stories of the professional runners. I wish the book had focused less on them.

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Nov 05, 2018 Colin rated information technology information technology was astonishing

Excellent way to learn about the NYC Marathon form and some dandy stories of runners and people along the course. I ready it right before running the marathon in 2018 and it was a great way to become fix to run!

Nov 05, 2019 Stephan rated it really liked it

The A to Z about the New York Urban center Marathon, and the dorsum stories of a handful of runners who overcame tragedy or their own demons to run the 2007 New York Marathon. You don't have to be a runner to savor this book. The A to Z about the New York City Marathon, and the back stories of a handful of runners who overcame tragedy or their own demons to run the 2007 New York Marathon. You don't accept to be a runner to relish this book. ...more

Jan 08, 2021 Frances rated it actually liked it

Very inspirational, especially the non-aristocracy runners...

Heard of this book when I met Dave Obelkevich, one of the streakers mentioned in the book (p.196) in an MTA crosstown jitney in NYC. He told me to read the book, so I did.

Aug 18, 2017 Nick rated it actually liked it

This was a groovy book for anyone who has run, or wants to run, a Marathon. Information technology's brimming total of anecdotes nearly the people and events that brand a marathon so fascinating. This was a great book for anyone who has run, or wants to run, a Marathon. It'south chock full of anecdotes nigh the people and events that brand a marathon so fascinating. ...more

Jul xvi, 2018 Kate rated it actually liked information technology

Actually cool. Lots of info most nyc/nyc marathon. Liked the setup - follow stories of multiple runners.

I ran NYC. Every other chapter brought back exciting memories of that day. But other chapters were like hitting the wall.

Jul 22, 2019 Gretchen rated information technology really liked information technology

Multiple compelling storylines here, about the famous and the ordinary, and I'm e'er a sucker for running lit. Only the prose are painfully impuissant in places, especially where Robbins attempts landscape description and summative metaphors. Cringeworthy. I was itching to get out my quondam editor's pen and kept thinking almost what ane of the exacting masters of long-form journalism for The New Yorker would accept done to this. Straightforward reportage is much more her force.

Great inspirational book for someone planning to run the NYC marathon for the offset time

Fantabulous stories and descriptions of the New York City Marathon. Information technology is a chip dated, it is the 2007 race but overall the stories and the history are timeless. Lovely read.

Dec 20, 2019 Shelley rated it liked information technology

3.5 stars. The volume chronicles the elites and a few every day runner stories of the 2007 NYC marathon.

3/5: This race focused narrative makes me want to run the 5 boroughs sometime shortly!

Oct 11, 2021 Lauren rated it liked it

An interesting read but I used it every bit my 'tin can't fall asleep book' which it wasn't that interesting…

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