Sub 4:00: Alan Webb And The Quest For The Fastest Mile - Couverture souple

LEAR, CHRIS

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1594860564 ISBN 13 : 9781594860560

Editeur : Rodale Press, 2004

Synopsis

For more than three decades, not one American schoolboy had run a sub-4:00 mile. Then, in January 2001, Alan Webb clocked a 3:59.86 mile, the fastest indoor U.S. high school mile ever. Just a few months later, the young track star achieved legendary status: he ran a 3:53.46 mile-a full 2 seconds faster than former record holder Jim Ryun. Everywhere Webb was hailed as "America's Next Great Miler."

In Sub 4:00, noted track writer Chris Lear follows Webb to college at the University of Michigan. As we witness Webb's freshman track season-watching him struggle with injuries, interpersonal conflicts, the politics of the collegiate track world, and his own aspirations to become the best miler ever-we get an unprecedented behind-the-scenes view of the life of one of the nation's most promising track athletes with a new chapter describing the latest developments in Webb's fascinating career.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Chris Lear knows running from the inside out. His own 4:09 was the fastest schoolboy mile of the 1990s in New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton University, where he was an All-American miler. Author of Running with the Buffaloes, he lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rodale Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1594860564
• ISBN 13: 9781594860560
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible