Running for Their Lives: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's Greatest Distance Runners
- ISBN-10
- 0224082590
- ISBN-13
- 9780224082594
- Category
- Long-distance runners
- Pages
- 372
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-04
- Publisher
- Random House
- Author
- Mark Whitaker
Description
You're unlikely to have heard of Britain's greatest long-distance runner. Despite being a world-class athlete, Peter Gavuzzi was consigned to obscurity. His heyday was in 1929, when he took part in the most extraordinary race ever held u a transcontinental run across America. He covered an improbable 3,500 miles in just 78 days.
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- 2019-01-28
- 162 pages
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