Track & Field Sports, Athletics

*SHORTLISTED for the Vikki Orvice Award for Women's Sports Writing at The British Sports Book Awards 2024*'The stories here are vital to our unders...

Its a Hill, Get Over It tells the story of fell running from its nineteenth-century origins to the present day. Exponents of the sport through the ...

In 490 BCE Pheidippides ran for 36 hours straight from Athens to Sparta to seek help in defending Athens from a Persian invasion. He was hailed as ...

Brecon Beacons Trail Running is a comprehensive guide to off-road running across the national park, including the Black Mountains, the Brecon Beaco...

A biography of Americas greatest all-around athlete that goes beyond the myth and into the guts of Thorpes life, using extensive research, historic...

Welcome to the Introduction to Athletic Training and Emergency Care in Sports textbook! The focus of this text is to provide you, the reader, with ...

How two teenage girls in Minnesota jump-started a revolution in high school athletics Peggy Brenden, a senior, played tennis. Toni St. Pierre, a ju...

Running can encompass the absolute extremes of human performance, from speed to endurance. Running Science uncovers the fundamental science that un...

For those willing to go to the edge, for those who love to run close to the sky, here are some of the world's most challenging and beautiful runnin...

An ironman triathlon is seen as the hardest one-day endurance event in the world. Consisting of a 3.8km swim, a 180km bike ride, followed by a full...