By Ed Caesar
Simply released to remarkable acclaim in Britain as “Hoop desires for runners” (The Spectator) and “a party of the human spirit” (The Observer), Hours is the 1st ebook from a blazing new expertise who “has proven himself as possibly the easiest new long-form journal author because the arrival of John Jeremiah Sullivan” (The mother or father) and whose “reportage has the splendidly out of date consider of the superior of yank journalism” (The Sunday Times).
Two hours to hide twenty-six miles and 385 yards. it truly is running’s Everest, a feat as soon as noticeable as very unlikely for the human physique. yet now we will glimpse the mountaintop. The sub-two hour marathon would require an outstanding mixture of pace, psychological energy, and persistence. The pioneer should undergo extra, reside braver, plan higher, and be luckier than a person who has run prior to. So who will it be?
In this spellbinding booklet, journalist Ed Caesar takes us into the realm of elite marathoners: a few of the maximum runners in the world. in the course of the tales of those wealthy characters, like Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai, round whom the narrative is outfitted, Caesar strains the historical past of the marathon in addition to the technological know-how, body structure, and psychology serious about working so quickly for thus lengthy. And he exhibits us why this so much democratic of races keeps its brutal, captivating appeal—and why we're attracted to attempt ourselves to the limit.
Two Hours is a booklet a few appealing activity few humans comprehend. It takes us from big-money races within the usa and Europe to distant villages in Kenya. It’s approximately expertise, heroism, and refusing to just accept defeat. it's a e-book approximately operating that's approximately even more than working. it's a human drama like no different.
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