Running With The Buffaloes chronicles Adam Goucher and the University of Colorado's 1998 Men's Cross Country Season. It provides an inside look on what it means to be a team and what it takes to be the best. THIS BOOK IS TO CROSS COUNTRY WHAT JOHN FEINSTEIN'S A SEASON ON THE BRINK IS TO COLLEGE BASKETBALL - USA Today 11/20/2000
I felt I was gawking at a forbidden goddess , like the hunter Actaeon coming upon the naked goddess Artemis . In the unremitting heat of the Italian afternoon , I watched , and I committed every detail to memory .
Gold for Cathy Freeman!: Big Book
Traditional Chinese edition of Once a Runner. The story of one man's quest to become a champion was a self-published book in 1978. It has become a must read for...
Only James Herriot's All Things Wise and Wonderful stands between my book and the very top of the best - seller list . My mother mails me a silver charm . On it she has had engraved the date and “ No. 2.
Peerless Percy: The Story of Canada's Greatest Sprinting Legend Percy Williams
John Walker's achievements as a runner include breaking the world mile record of three minutes 50 seconds in 1975, becoming the Olympic champion in Montreal, also Sportsman of the Decade and twice Sportsman of the Year.
Merlene Ottey: Unyielding Spirit
Profiles Wilma Rudolph, who overcame childhood polio to become an Olympic medal-winning runner.
The unforgiving minute
It was Chris Brasher who, along with Chris Chataway, paced Roger Bannister to break the 4-minute mile. Then he won his own Olympic Gold Medal in the steeplechase at the 1956 Olympics.