The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
- ISBN-10
- 1633828476
- ISBN-13
- 9781633828476
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 62
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-03-24
- Author
- Rene Wijnstra
Description
The loneliness of the long distance runner is the main point of the autobiographical account of the marathon adventurer Rene Wijnstra. In 2010, this athlete had, along with five companions, the ultimate running challenge of their lives in "The City That Never Sleeps, The Big Apple," New York, the marathon of marathons! Rene has a trick but will he beat the 42.2 kilometers of asphalt and bridges? Would he manage to get it when he runs from Manhattan and finish at the Central Park? Flashbacks from previous years and the effects of music accompany the forty-two-year-old sportsman during the "Monster Tour" in the jungle of life and the streets of New York... Rene Wijnstra (Dokkum, 1968) spent fourteen years at the Central Flags and since 2001 worked at a paint wholesale service. He has lived his entire (sporting) life in the Frisian Dokkum and got together with his wife in 2004, and had a son. The talented writer, mostly writing sports articles and a single newspaper article (Summer Story "Down Down"), was the harbinger of truth for this book. In one year (2013), he completed the course on autobiography writing and wrote his first book: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner."
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