First Marathons: Personal Encounters With The 26.2-Mile Monster by Gail Waesche Kislevitz

SUMMARY: A collection of people’s stories about their first marathons. Some are great, most are good, a few are a little slow. Overall, I enjoyed it.

With my own first marathon quickly approaching, I thought this would be an interesting read. The editor collected stories from a variety of people about their own first marathons, and published them in this book. Some of the stories are funny, others are more serious. Some of the people you may have heard of such as author Erich Segal, and well known runner Bill Rogers. Others are just everyday people that you have never heard of. If you are thinking about running your first marathon, I know you will enjoy this book. I think even people have have run many marathons will enjoy this book.
Conributers are Kim Ahrens, Rick Bachmann, Tory Baucum, Bill Begg, Leah Begg, Ellen Bellicchi, Richard Bellicchi, Heidi L. Winslow Butts, Ileta Coley, Ted Corbitt, Toshiko d’Elia, Lauren Fessenden, Wayne Gibbons, Tina Gordon, Scott Greeley, Rob Hemmel, Donna Isaacson, Marion Irvine, Roger Jones, John Joseph Kelley, Thomas King, Gail Waesche Kislevitz, Nina Kuscsik, Paul Mbugua, Jim Miller, Mike Roam, Bill Rodgers, Erich Segal, Matthew Shafner, Larry Smith, Ray Steffen, Allan Steinfeld, Dick Traum, Jeff Blackwell Vlaun, Grete Waitz, Shan Worthington, Sandy Zanchi.
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Posted by Rob in Reviews on October 19th, 2006 |