This extract is from The Runner's World Complete Book of Running by RW USA Editor Amby Burfoot. You can now preview it, free, for two weeks without risk or obligation. All running programmes for beginners are the same: they move you from walking
miles. Or, to put it another way, I get high on one out of every 21,600 sessions. Not very impressive. Fact Or Fantasy?Researchers don’t have a better average than mine either. They’ve been chasing runner’s high for the last 25 years, and, until very
ultra-marathon runner who completed the 54-mile Comrades Marathon seven times. At the time, he wrote three articles encouraging runners to drink more. Then a strange thing happened in the early 1980s. He started to receive calls from athletes and A
