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Extreme Running | 
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| Authors: Kym Mcconnell, Dave Horsley
Creator: Ranulph Fiennes
Publisher: Pavilion
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 104957
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 8.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 1862057567
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.42
EAN: 9781862057562
ASIN: 1862057567
Publication Date: October 1, 2007
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Product Description
Running is an inexpensive, practical, and convenient sport, but some take it to the limit. From cold-weather running in Alaska to the intense heat of the Sahara Marathon, athletes attempt to overcome the elements. Extremes of environment, route, and geography are another challenge: trails through dense jungle and over soaring mountain ranges. The rewards are experiences of a lifetime, the sense of having been to largely unexplored places, and realizing unique ambitions. Never before has there been a manual to pull together all the elements of this new but fast-growing sport, touching on every aspect from lone desert running to ultramarathons. The follow-up to Extreme Golf and Extreme Sailing, this third volume is a must-have for all runners.
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Great for all athletes, not just runners November 12, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
If you are a runner, adventure racer, ultrarunner, or interested in extreme events, Extreme Running is for you. I love this book. Extreme Running features sections on races on the seven continents. Twenty-four events are profiled in the chapters. Each event is shown with plenty of photos, race information, distance, time of year, field size, ascent and decent data, contact and Web information, and maps or an altitude profile. As you read the chapters, you get a feel for the event and its difficulty. The Marathon des Sables is featured in 16 pages, Badwater in 10, while others are covered in several pages. The photos are fantastic - making you feel in the race. While not inclusive of all extreme events on the seven continents, the book does a great job of showing you popular events and enough information to help you decide if you could do any one of them. This is a book that some might call a "coffee table" book - it is that beautiful. It appeals to me because I love the draw and challenge of these extreme events. As the author of Fixing Your Feet, I patch the feet of these athletes, and have been to several of them and can attest to the descriptions as accurate.
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