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Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon

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By (author): Ed Caesar

WINNER OF THE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARD FOR NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR

'Lyrical and passionate ... a celebration of the human spirit and what it can achieve' Observer

Two hours to cover twenty-six miles and 385 yards. An exceptional feat of speed, mental strength and endurance. The sub-two-hour marathon is running's Everest, a feat once seen as impossible for the human body. But now we have reached the mountaintop.

In this spellbinding book Ed Caesar takes us into the world of the elite of the elite: the greatest marathoners on earth. Through the stories of these rich characters, and their troubled lives, he traces the history of the marathon as well as the science, physiology and psychology involved in running so fast, for so long. And he shows us why this most democratic of races retains its savage, enthralling appeal - why we are drawn to test ourselves to the limit.

Now with a new afterword telling the inside story of how Eliud Kipchoge achieved the impossible, with exclusive access to Nike's #Breaking2 project, and the Ineos159 event at which the barrier was finally broken.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 191g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Apr 2016
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780670921904

About Ed Caesar

Ed Caesar is forty years old. He lives in Manchester and writes for the New Yorker. He has won eleven major journalism awards - including a British Press Award PPA Writer of the Year and the 2014 Foreign Press Award for Journalist of the Year. His subjects have included conflict in central Africa the world's longest tennis match stolen art money-laundering and the trade in diamonds. His first book Two Hours won a Cross Sports Book Award in 2016.

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