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  • Two Hours

  • The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon
  • Written by: Ed Caesar
  • Narrated by: Bryan Dick
  • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins

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Two Hours

Written by: Ed Caesar
Narrated by: Bryan Dick
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Publisher's Summary

The marathon tethers runners to their own personal narratives. It is a question of how you grow. Nothing but your own body will get you through; everything you have done in your life until the moment you cross the finishing line is connected to the effort.

Two hours to cover 26 miles and 385 yards. It is running's Everest, a feat once seen as impossible for the human body. But now we can glimpse the mountaintop.

The sub-two-hour marathon will require an exceptional feat of speed, mental strength and endurance. The pioneer will have to endure more, live braver, plan better, and be luckier than his forebearers. So who is he?

In this spellbinding book, Ed Caesar takes us into the world of the elite of the elite: the greatest marathoners on Earth. Through the stories of these rich characters and their troubled lives, he traces the history of the marathon as well as the science, physiology, and psychology involved in running so fast for so long. And he shows us why this most democratic of races retains its savage, enthralling appeal - why we are drawn to test ourselves to the limit.

This book will be enjoyed by readers of Born to Run, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Running with the Kenyans.

Ed Caesar is a 34-year-old British nonfiction writer. His stories have been published by The New York Times, GQ, The Sunday Times, and Smithsonian Magazine. The winner of six major journalism awards - including a British Press Award, a Foreign Press Association Media Award, and PPA Writer of the Year - his subjects have included conflict in central Africa, the world's longest tennis match, and tracking down stolen art. Two Hours is his first book.

©2015 Ed Caesar (P)2015 Audible, Ltd.

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