The Spirit of the Marathon: What to Expect in Your First Marathon and How to Run Them for the Rest of Your Life

by Kislevitz, Gail Waesche

• ISBN13: 9781891369360
• ISBN10: 1891369369
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

Personal stories of making the mara-thon a part of your life. This companion volume to First Marathons will inform, inspire, and educate any runner who wants to try the marathon, or wants to run several marathons a year. It picks up where that fast-selling book left off: it follows up with the 37 people profiled there, to see how their marathoning life has progressed since their first race. And it includes some 20 new first-marathon stories, as well as the stories of runners tackling their second or third marathon, and making the marathon an integral part of their lives.These stories are lively first-person essays, oral history on the subject of running marathons. Far more valuable than dry how-to books, this is powerful, heartfelt human experience.

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(2)
Foreword	11
Part One
MARATHONS AND BEYOND
Richard Byrne The (Marathon) Trials of His Life	17	(4)
Dale Chrystof What If I'm Last?	21	(10)
Steven Cousins Singing the Marathon Blues	31	(8)
Michael Dove In a Marathon State of Mind	39	(6)
John Eberle What Was I Thinking?	45	(6)
Carolyn Eckert They Don't Call It Big Sur For Nothing	51	(6)
Wanda Estes Greetings from Arlington, Texas	57	(8)
Richard Friedrichsen Life Begins at 50	65	(4)
Ingrid Gamm A Sound Runner	69	(6)
Sam Grotewold Everybody Struggles	75	(8)
Sid Howard The Marathon to the Mile	83	(6)
CM Jenkins Had to Do It Again to Get It Right	89	(6)
Jackson Kipngok The Kenyan Way	95	(4)
David Lavalle Never Say Never	99	(6)
Matthew Leshetz The Heart of a Runner	105	(8)
Sharon Linstedt The Best Laid Plans Go Awry	113	(6)
Jennifer Lou It's All About the Picture	119	(6)
Gary Mellor Finish Before the Time Clocks Come Down	125	(6)
Gerald Otten I Do It My Way	131	(6)
Carol Patterson Running for Fred's Team	137	(8)
Jennifer Sage Mom's Big Moment	145	(6)
Robert Sawyer I'm Not just a jogger	151	(8)
Tim Shields So Long, Cheese Steaks and Beer	159	(8)
Lisa Swain From Marathons to Triathlons	167	(6)
Catharine Troisi Personal Goal: A World Without Cancer	173	(6)
Abraham Weintraub Doing It for Ruthie	179	(4)
Edward Whitlock The Accidental Marathoner	183	(8)
Part Two
THE ELITES
Gordon Bakoulis New York City or Bust	191	(6)
Don Kardong Shorter, Rodgers and Who?	197	(8)
Anne Marie Lauck DNF to Third	205	(6)
Jeff Galloway All the Satisfaction with None of the Pain	211	(4)
Kathrine Switzer Life Is for Participating	215	(10)
Part Three
FIRST MARATHONS ALUMNI
Bill Begg Still Learning After All Thee Years	225	(3)
Ellen Bellicchi The Comeback Kid	228	(2)
Rob Hemmel Runner by Default	230	(3)
Ted Corbitt A Willingness to Suffer	233	(3)
Gail Waesche Kislevitz I'm Tri-ing!	236	(3)
Matthew Shafner Missing It	239	(3)
Larry Smith Marathons to Metal Detectors	242	(2)
Ray Steffen Not Yet!	244	(1)
Part Four
ADVICE AND SUPPORT
Choosing Your First Marathon	245	(3)
What to Pack in the Marathon Duffel Bag	248	(1)
Weather and the Marathon	248	(3)
The Three Stages of the Marathon	251	(19)
References	270	(1)
Marathon Courses Described in Stories	270