: An enjoyable book with good description of what to expect from your first marathon. Jay Snizzel: MOTIVATING Strengths: Short chapters which make it the ideal pickup and read when feeling at a loss with running. Some stories include siblings and husband

-alcoholics. adi123: INSPIRING STORIES FROM ACROSS THE FLM FIELD, A GREAT READ Strengths: Truly inspiring for runners of all capabilities. Gives a bit of history, a decent general mile-by-mile course description and some FLM trivia, but the guts of the book

In short:RW's columnist John 'The Penguin' Bingham - a contented, slow marathon runner who used to be an overweight couch potato - shares his philosophy of incorporating diet and exercise into everyday life and making personal fitness a long

In short:This is the story of an epic run of 2000 miles in 97 days. Hugh Symonds ran to the top of all 277 Scottish Munros, 4 English tops, 15 Welsh peaks and 7 Irish summits in his marathon run. The book is a fascinating human account, in diary

In short:The Looniness of the Long Distance Runner is one comparatively unfit 39-year-old Londoner's humorous account of his attempt to run the New York marathon from scratch. Inspired by the charity running of his friends, Russell Taylor decided

at all. nick osullivan: POOR Strengths: Weaknesses: Overall: truely poor very little about the man where he come from etc.i thought haile ran marathons as well as track ,just not mentioned runnerman: A truly inspirational book. Strengths: Weaknesses

. Overall: I loved this book. Was interesting and easy to read. Adam Buckeridge 2: Excellent book about ultra-marathons. Inspiring and very well written Strengths: Well written and inspiring. Humorous excellent coverage of the highs and lows of ultra-marathon

it down. Weaknesses: Very easy to read, I just couldn't put it down. Overall: A very well written book that inspired me to get out and give it a go. It made me think how easy marathons seem to be compared to the dreaded Bog Graham. Neil Milvain: FELL