Ultra running is one of the world`s fastest growing sports & in Ian Corless who runs the scene`s most influential podcast, ultra-running has the perfect author to chronicle its rise. Running Beyond is a homage to the sport`s legendary races, unique, commissioned photography, captures the diverse & striking terrain
- from mountail peaks, to jungles & deserts. Through interviews with the legendary athletes of the sport, Running Beyond is the ultimate homage to the ultra-running world. Foreword by record-breaking, world number one, Kilian Jornet (Run or Die).
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Having already cycled & swum the length of Britain, endurance adventurer Sean Conway completed his trilogy by running all the way from John O` Groats to Land`s End. Read the awe-inspiring accounts from his journey
- which he completed entirely unsupported, sleeping in a tent & carrying all his own equipment.
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This book is for all types of runners, whether you are just starting, a regular runner, or are training for a race. It provides details of interesting & varied runs in & around Edinburgh of different distances & on different terrains. The book takes in historic city streets, beautiful country parks & stunning local beaches, as well as the easily accessed Pentland hills & Lothian countryside. It is a great way to discover this wonderful city & get fit at the same time. ...

When Jenny & Robert fall in love in the late 1960s they decide to build a new future together, away from the city. They escape to an isolated sheep farm nestled on a mountainside. It has no running water but it is beautiful & rugged. Their young sons can roam wild. As their flock struggles, money runs low & rain drives in horizontally across the fields, inside the ancient house their marriage begins to unravel. Wilful & romantic, Jenny refuses to abandon her farm. She will bring her boys up single-handedly on the mountain. Together they embark on a perilous adventure. Running for the Hills is astonishing family memoir. Horatio Clare vividly recreates his mother`s extraordinary way of life & his own bewitching childhood in a magical story of love & struggle. ...

In 1928 two extraordinary Englishmen competed in an unprecedented event
- a transcontinental road race across America that required
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Sir Robin Knox-Johnston burst to fame when he became the first man ever to complete a single-handed, non-stop circumnavigation of the world. Now, 50 years on from that famous voyage, he reveals the true, extraordinary story of his life. After leaving school, he immediately joined the Royal Naval Reserve before serving in the merchant navy & travelling the world. During that time, he spied for the British government in the Gulf, worked in the South African dockyards, & built his boat Suhaili in Bombay, before sailing home to Engl&. In June 1968, he set sail in Suhaili in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, & Running Free vividly brings to life that remarkable voyage, where he was the only person to finish the race, completing his journey on 22 April 1969 & thus entering the record books. Once back home, he set up a hugely successful business & continued his naval adventures, completing a second solo circumnavigation of the globe in 2007
- at 68, he became the oldest to complete this feat. Knox-Johnston`s insatiable appetite for life & adventure shines through these pages, making this book a must for all sailing enthusiasts, readers of books by Ranulph Fiennes & Chris Bonington, or for anyone who has felt that the time for putting up your feet can always be put back to another day.
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For one brilliant season in 1983 the sport of fell running was dominated by the two huge talents of John Wild & Kenny Stuart. Wild was an incomer to the sport from road running & track. Stuart was born to the fells, but an outcast because of his move from amateur to professional & back again. Together they destroyed the record book, only determining who was top by a few seconds in the last race of the season. Running Hard is the story of that season, & an inside, intimate look at the two men by the author of It`s a Hill, Get Over It & The Round. ...

For one brilliant season in 1983 the sport of fell running was dominated by the two huge talents of John Wild & Kenny Stuart. Wild was an incomer to the sport from road running & track. Stuart was born to the fells, but an outcast because of his move from amateur to professional & back again. Together they destroyed the record book, only determining who was top by a few seconds in the last race of the season. Running Hard is the story of that season, & an inside, intimate look at the two men by the author of It`s a Hill, Get Over It & The Round. ...

In ‘ Running in the Family’ Michael Ondaatje returns to Sri Lanka, the home he left for Canada twenty five years earlier. A dream lures Ondaatje to revisit his childhood & the exotic family he never really understood. Born in Ceylon, into a privileged group of Sinhalese, Tamil & Dutch origins, Ondaatje has created a book seamlessly fused by anecdotes, poems & memories are as he tries to piece together the portrait of his Sri Lankan heritage & the stories & secrets of his ancestors. ...

` If you`ve ever wept, ” Why Do I Want To Run?” your answer is here.` Caitlin Moran Alexandra Heminsley had high hopes: the arse of an athlete, the waist of a supermodel, the speed of a gazelle. Defeated by gyms & bored of yoga, she decided to run. Her first attempt did not end well. Six years later, she has run five marathons in two continents. But, as her dad says, you run with your head as much as with your legs. So, while this is a book about running, it`s not just about running. You could say it`s about ambition (yes, getting out of bed on a rainy Sunday morning counts), relationships (including talking to the intimidating staff in the trainer shop), as well as your body (your boobs don`t have to wobble when you run). But it`s also about realising that you can do more than you ever thought possible. Very funny, very honest & very emotional, whether you`re in serious training or thinking about running for the bus, this is a book for anyone who after wine & crisps for supper a few too many times thinks they might... just might... like to run like a girl. ...