# The Lure of Long Distances

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- Authors: [Robin Harvie](https://www.bookquiver.com/robin-harvie)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-04-26

## Description

Robin Harvie was a fairly ordinary runner. He ran his first marathon after a bet. Then he found that although he couldn't run fast, he could run long distances- very long. A casual hobby turned into a 120-miles-a-week obsession, and a training route along the River Thames morphed into a promise to himself that he would tackle the oldest and toughest footrace on earth: the Spartathlon from Athens to Sparta. This race, a recreation of Pheidippides's legendary journey, is 150 miles long, crosses two mountain ranges, and is the toughest race on the ultradistance runner's calendar. It isn't at all ordinary. p class=" MsoNormal" Harvie's experience- from the mundanity of daily training routes to the extreme tests of the desert's scorching heat and the darkest hours of the night- reveals the profoundly intoxicating experience of running, and the ways in which every mile taken is both a step further into the unknown and a pace deeper into the self.

## Editions

### The Lure of Long Distances

- Publisher: publicaffairs
- ISBN: 978-16-1039-020-0
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2011-04-26
- Language: en_GB