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QUEST FOR THE FINISH diary of a distance runner.
Quest for the Finish--Diary of a Distance Runner is the story of one man's personal experiences in the custom of running. It details how he got mixed up in such an endeavor and how it became an integral part of his life; how it morphed into a preferred method for keeping fit. The author describ...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[S.l.] :
EL SOBRANTE PRESS,
2020.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface
- I. Introduction
- II. How It All Got Started
- III. Training Runs
- Washington, DC: A Capital Run on Christmas Day
- Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge Run
- Oakland: Middle Harbor Shoreline Park
- IV. Intermediate Race Distances
- The Mile
- Main Street Mile, Westminster, MD
- Track Races: Around and Around We Go
- The 5K Race
- Shamrock Run, Dublin, CA and Baltimore, MD
- The 8K Race
- Stadium to Stadium, Baltimore, MD
- The 5-Miler
- Zoo Zoom, Baltimore, MD
- The 10K Race
- Run vs. Row, Alexandria, VA
- Run Through History-The Battle of Antietam
- Chesapeake Bay Bridge Run, Annapolis, MD
- Spider Mania: Tarantulas and a 10K Race, Brentwood, CA
- The 12K Race
- Bay-to-Breakers, San Francisco, CA
- Across the Bay, San Francisco, CA
- Bridge to Bridge, San Francisco, CA
- The 8-Miler
- Great Aloha Race, Honolulu, HI
- Brickyard Run, Martinez, CA
- The 10-Miler and 15K Race
- Washington Parkway Classic, Alexandria, VA
- Annapolis 10-Miler
- Life is a Bowl of Cherries
- Cherry Pie 10-Miler, Patterson Park, Baltimore, MD
- Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run, Washington, DC
- Cherry Pit 10-Miler, Edgewater, MD
- Metric Marathon
- V. Trail Running and Cross Country
- Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run
- California Half Marathon Trail Challenges May-June 1999
- Lake Chabot Challenge, Alameda County, CA
- Memorial Day Challenge, Clayton, CA
- Devil's Slide, Pacifica, CA
- Double Dipsea, Stinson Beach, Marin, California, June 26, 1999
- The Dipsea Race, Mill Valley to Stinson Beach, June 2000-2016
- Catalina Island Buffalo Ramble, July 2005
- Briones Regional Park Turkey Trot, November 1996-2017
- VI. Team Running
- Lake Tahoe Relays, South Lake Tahoe
- Golden Gate Relays: Calistoga to Santa Cruz
- The Military Takes to the Road, October 2-3, 1998.
- Calistoga to Santa Cruz Revisited, April 8-9, 2006
- VII. The Half Marathon
- Colonial, Williamsburg, VA 1992 and 1995
- Black Dog, Bungay, England 2000
- Mini-Marathon, Indianapolis, IN 2013
- Livermore, CA 2015
- Berkeley, CA 2016
- Bay Breeze, San Leandro, CA 2018
- Nashville, TN 2018
- Santa Rosa, CA 2018
- Bizz Johnson Express, Susanville, CA 2018
- Las Vegas, NV 2018
- London Monuments, England 2019
- VIII. The Marathon
- Marine Corps Marathons 1992 and 1993
- Boston 1994
- New York City 1994
- Pittsburgh 1995
- Napa Valley 1996
- Cal International, Sacramento 1996 and 1998
- San Francisco 1997
- Big Sur 1998
- Chicago 1998
- Mount Rushmore 1999
- Las Vegas 2000
- Niagara Falls 2000
- Grand Canyon 2001
- Marine Corps 2001
- Honolulu 2002 and 2004
- Paris, France 2003
- Philadelphia 2003
- Berlin, Germany 2005
- Avenue of the Giants, Humboldt, CA 2006
- San Antonio 2006
- Mont San Michel, France 2008
- Yakima River Canyon, WA 2009
- Québec City, Canada 2009
- Oakland 2010
- Baltimore 2010
- Gettysburg 2011
- Marine Corps 2011
- Lost Dutchman, Apache Junction 2013
- Venice, Italy 2013
- Windermere, Spokane 2014
- Rome, Italy 2016
- IX. Running Abroad
- Canada
- France
- Germany
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- Italy
- Japan
- Korea
- Thailand
- X. Down for the Count: Running Injuries
- Injury Avoidance
- Hamstring and Achilles Issues
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Adductor Strains
- Broken Bones
- Exhaustion and Taking a Dive
- Sun Damage and Poison Oak
- Summary
- XI. Epilogue
- A Runner: The Road Back
- A Runner: The Road Back-Part Two
- Appendix
- Half Marathons
- Marathons
- Personal Records.