Staying the Course - A Runner''s Toughest Race

Informationen zum Autor Dick Beardsley is a professional speaker, fishing guide, and radio announcer. He still holds the records for Grandma's Marathon in Duluth and the Napa Valley Marathon. Maureen Anderson is a writer and award-winning radio journalist. She is coauthor with Jon Hovde of Left for Dead: A Second Life after Vietnam (Minnesota, 2005). Klappentext For a moment Dick Beardsley became the most famous runner in the world by losing a race. In the 1982 Boston Marathon, Beardsley, foiled by a motorcycle that cut him off, finished two seconds behind Alberto Salazar in one of the most memorable contests in marathon history. Staying the Course recounts that race and the difficult years that followed, including his recovery from a near-fatal farm accident, his subsequent addiction to painkillers, and a public arrest for forging prescriptions. His story of overcoming obstacles speaks to anyone who loves competition, who has survived catastrophe, or who has pursued a seemingly impossible goal. Zusammenfassung The gripping memoir of a record-holding marathoner - now in paperback! Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgements Introduction My Kind of Sport Getting My Hopes Up The Road to Boston The Boston Marathon A Change of Pace An Accident Happening The Toughest Race The Road to Recovery

Product details

• Authors: Maureen Anderson, Dick Beardsley, Dick Anderson Beardsley, Dick/ Anderson Beardsley, BEARDSLEY DICK ANDERSON MAUREEN
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2004
• EAN: 9780816637591
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-3759-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Track and field athletics, gymnastics; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Leichtathletik