{"product_id":"9781250016980","title":"Marathon Man : My 26.2-Mile Journey from Unknown Grad Student to the Top of the Running World","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eMarathon Man\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Bill Rodgers, Matthew Shepatin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe legendary long-distance runner details his historic victory in the 1975 Boston Marathon that launched the modern running boom\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin a span of two hours and nine minutes, Bill Rodgers went from obscurity to legend, from Bill Rodgers to \"Boston Billy.\" In doing so, he instantly became the people's champ and the poster boy for the soulful 1970s distance runner. Having won the Boston Marathon and New York Marathon four times each, he remains the only marathoner to have appeared on the cover of \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e twice. Winning the Holy Grail of marathons in an unthinkable record time changed Bill's life forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut his dramatic breakthrough in Boston also changed the lives of countless others, instilling in other American runners the belief that they could follow in his footsteps, and inspiring thousands of regular people to lace up their shoes and chase down their own dreams. In the year before Rodger's victory at the 1975 Boston Marathon, 20,000 people had completed a marathon in the United States. By 2009, participants reached nearly half a million.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty-seven years later Bill Rodgers still possesses the same warm, endearing, and whimsical spirit that turned him into one of America's most beloved athletes. In \u003ci\u003eMarathon Man\u003c\/i\u003e he details for the first time this historic race and the events that led him there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I've been reading Bill Rodgers' book, \u003ci\u003eMarathon Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and they let him go. And I tried to visualize that, race the way he did.” —\u003ci\u003eMeb Keflezighi, moments after winning the 2014 Boston Marathon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Required Reading” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book is more than a good read. It's my new Bible.” —\u003ci\u003eFitness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An absorbing portrait…of the grueling stress and subtle strategizing of long-distance races, and of the plucky, slapdash subculture of marathoning in its salad days.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bill Rodgers is the most celebrated men's distance runner in history.” —\u003ci\u003eNational Distance Running Hall of Fame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If anyone can rally runners to a cause, it is Rodgers, who remains by some measures the most popular road racer of all time” —\u003ci\u003eRunners World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Trace the popularity of road running today, and the roots lead back to Rodgers.” —\u003ci\u003eSouth Bend Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I could see reading this book on the beach and being inspired to do an afternoon run.” —\u003ci\u003eRoss Martinson, co-owner of Philadelphia Runner writing for BeWellPhilly.com's Summer Reading List\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250016980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Thomas Dunne Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40593908990158,"sku":"9781250016980","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_426de28f-4b65-47c2-850c-c90de0af9558.jpg?v=1637796291","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250016980","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}