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1) Four minutes
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
After Mount Everest was conquered, the last great human feat remained the four-minute mile. While many sought to break the barrier, it was medical student, individualist, and driven amateur Roger Bannister's inspiring story that astounded the world.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Karnazes is an ultramarathoner: a member of a small, elite, hard-core group of extreme athletes who race 100 miles and longer. They can run forty-eight hours and more without sleep. They can scale mountains, in brutally hot or cold weather, pushing their bodies, minds, and spirits well past what seems humanly possible. Karnazes has run 226.2 miles nonstop; he has completed the 135-mile Badwater Ultramarathon across Death Valley in 130-degree weather;...
Author
Series
Once a runner novels volume Prequel
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the New York Times bestselling Once a Runner--"The best novel ever written about running" (Runner's World)--comes that novel's prequel, the story of a world-class athlete coming of age in the 1950s and 60s on Florida's Gold Coast. Quenton Cassidy's first foot races are with nature itself: the summer storms that sweep through his subtropical neighborhood. Shirtless, barefoot, and brown as a berry, Cassidy is a skinny, mouthy kid...
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the 1987 true story, the movie follows novice runners from McFarland, an economically challenged town in California's farm-rich Central Valley, as they give their all to build a cross-country team under the direction of Coach Jim White, a newcomer to their predominantly Latino high school. With grit and determination, the unlikely band of runners eventually overcomes the odds to forge not only a championship cross-country team but an enduring...
5) Ghost
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential"--
Author
Publisher
Mainstream Publishing
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This heartrending biography of one of the greatest long-distance runners in the world traces his beginnings as a hapless teenage boxer in the 1950s who, despite the fact that he was banned from running for life, decided to fight back, earning him the moniker The Ghost Runner.
7) The runner
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012, ©1985
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
As a dedicated runner, a teenage boy has always managed to distance himself from other people until the experience of coaching one of his teammates on the track team gradually helps him see the value of giving and receiving.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the author's experiences with the reclusive Tarahumara Indians, whose techniques allow them to run long distances with ease, and describes his training for a fifty-mile race with the tribe and a number of ultramarathoners.
Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In his narrative, award-winning journalist and often-injured runner Christopher...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring and irresistible true story of the women who broke barriers and finish-line ribbons in pursuit of Olympic Gold When Betty Robinson assumed the starting position at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, she was participating in what was onlyher fourth-ever organized track meet. She crossed the finish line as a gold medalist and the fastest woman in the world. This improbable athletic phenom was an ordinary high school student, discovered...
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