"Running For My Life" by adventure runner Ray Zahab was a good read.

Also liked
Iron War
I'm Here To Win
Without Limits

I loved Feet in the Clouds by Richard Askwith. It really makes you want to get out into the great outdoors and run up and down mountains!

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If you liked "Ultramarathon Man" then read what I consider the companion book "Swimming to Antarctica-Tales of a Long Distance Swimmer" by Lynne Cox.

Some of her stories were very suspenseful and I often thought she was going to die in the process of completing her goals.
Very easy to read.

Eat and run is a really good book I thoroughly enjoyed. It is a very big stretch to call is a cookbook - there are only a few recipes at the end of chapters.

Thanks everyone for all the good recommendations in this thread !

Iron war for sure

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breaking the chain - willie vote - should actually be almost mandatory reading if you want to see how conned everyone was for so long - or not depending on how prophetic with the benefit of hindsight people choose to be

I second that, just finished reading it. Funny and fascinating. Certainly a few idea's I'll be exploring thanks to that book.

Doug

I just finished the Brownlee book, it was great.

I have a few books I've never gotten rid of.
Boy Racer - Mark Cavendish
Running with the Buffaloes
Sub 4:00 - Alan Webb
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Iron War
I'm Here to Win - Chris McCormack
Duel in the Sun - Salazar and Beardsley

I'll send them all to you for $35. Should keep you busy for a while

And to second what a previous poster said - Gold in the Water was great.

If you want to see pro training just look it up on strava

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There in old book called "Running with the Legends". It is a collection of biographies and it is good. No BS in it.

"Once a Runner" by John L. Parker is a phenomenal read. It's about the obsession of running a 4 minute mile originally written in 1978. It was reprinted I believe in 2010 due to demand. If anyone else has read this one please chime in with your thoughts.

Have you read the Chrissy Wellington book? If not you wanna trade the Cav book?

Animal Farm, George Orwell.

Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World

I don't really remember it that clearly other than I thought it was about the prep for an olympic cycle - rather the transition from college to pro to olympic cycle. I did just finish Again to Carthage - the follow up, it was definitely not as good, though it was interesting that on a personal level coming back to a more athletic lifestyle after a decade of putting on weight I could relate to some of the themes written about such as discipline, routine and the satisfaction to be gained from it.

I do think as a general observation on these book related posts, is that there is a whole "Canon" (thinking sports as opposed to western or english lit) or sport related literature, a good start is the William Hill prize, Richard Askwiths feet in the clouds is one example, night games another - shocker about australian professional sporting culture in football and a lesser extent rugby. For endurance sports, there's a large number of excellent authors - william fotheringham, charley wegilius's auto domestique, paul kimage, david walsh. Fotheringham's written a number of books, walsh as well as a collection of his collected articles during the armstrong era. the race against the stasi.

at the moment my book of choice as mentioned in an earlier post is Faster - its a pretty good summary of GB cycling over the last 20 years and explains in far more detail the method they used that I've not seen written up before as well as info about individual athletes - its also quite funny

FTW! I just ordered this to read with my resident middle schooler.


I've read this many times over the years and absolutely love the book.

Based on this thread, 'Gold in the Water' is next for me.

Scott

Running with the Kenyans. Definitely causes some wunderlust and will make you want to drop out and go run with the Kenyans for a while.