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TFS Book Review - Kenny Moore’s “Best Efforts: Great Runners and Great Races”

Posted July 8th, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Jesse Squire

Section: Motivation, Books, Special Features, TFS Reviews

kenny moore best efforts book review Best Efforts: Great Runners and Great Races, Volume 1
by Kenny Moore
Daybreak Press (Eugene, OR) 2008
Available through KennyMoore.us ($14.95)

This book, originally published in 1983, is back in print again. For years it was among the most difficult running books to find, generally going for upwards of $100 at the various online auction sites. Mostly, your options were interlibrary loan or just plain luck (as I had when stumbling across a copy of The Self-Made Olympian at a coffee shop for $3.95). In the manner you’d expect–quiet and understated–Kenny was selling and signing books in the back of a booth at the Olympic Trials this week with no advertising or fanfare. If you didn’t walk in, you wouldn’t have known.

The book is a collection of pieces written for Sports Illustrated from the ’70s through 1980, but by no means a complete one. The “Volume One” attached to this new edition refers to a planned second collection of articles from 1981 through the present. The subject are wide-ranging and include Bill Bowerman, John Akii-Bua, Roger Bannister, Steve Prefontaine, Lasse Viren, Bill Rodgers, Mary Decker, Eamonn Coghlan, the 1971 Fukuoka Marathon, the 1979 Golden Mile, and others.
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Olympic Trials Countdown

Posted June 9th, 2008 at 9:00 AM by Jesse Squire

Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Olympics

Seventeen days and counting. I got my Olympic Trials tickets in the mail today.

They are bright, shiny, colorful and artistic. They are also literally irreplaceable because the meet has sold out. For a brief moment I thought about going to the bank and putting them in the safe deposit box. Then I decided that would be a bit too much … or would it?

The ticket package, among other things, told me what could and could not be brought in to Hayward Field. You wouldn’t think they’d have to say that prohibited items include illegal drugs, explosives and guns, but I guess we do live in a litigious society. Absent from both the “OK” and “Not OK” lists were computers. What’s an online journalist to do?
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Other stories and links of interest: March 26, 2007

Posted March 26th, 2007 at 2:30 AM by Adam Jacobs

Section: News & Results

World XC Recap: A Truly Unbelievable Day — LetsRun.com’s Weldon (Wejo) Johnson offers first-hand coverage of the World Cross Country Championships from Mombasa, Kenya.

“Marathon Woman” — The brand-new autobiography of the legendary and revolutionary Kathrine Switzer; the first woman to register for and enter the Boston Marathon. This year’s race will mark the 40th anniversary of her courageous and pioneering accomplishment. Swizter, a NYC Marathon Champion, also co-authored “26.2: Marathon Stories” and wrote “Running and Walking for Women Over 40″.

dathan-ritzenhein-runners-world-april-2007-michael-darter.jpg “Making of a Marathoner” — Runners World (April ‘07 Edition) … If you haven’t read this in-depth article on American runner Dathan Ritzenhein - it’s time that you do. Kenny Moore, a former Olympic marathoner who was trained by the legendary Bill Bowerman, details Ritz’s development and ongoing transformation into a gutsy and fearless marathoner.