Showing results for "The Long Run" in Biographies & Memoirs

On the morning of December 22, 2005, New York City firefighter Matt Long was cycling to work when he was struck by and sucked under a 20-ton bus making an illegal turn. The injuries he sustained pushed him within inches of death. Miraculously, after five months in the hospital and more than 40...

The 2 Blokes Chatting Radio Show introduced a new segment at the start of 2021 called The Long Run. The segment has become quite popular and, seemingly deserving of its own podcast. And so, here it is. Broadly speaking, The Long Run is a segment where one or both of the hosts have a whinge, state an opinion or pour cold water on something they have observed during the previous week. Please note that a number of the conversations in this podcast relate specifically to the news of the day / week and so may seem a little irrelevant and out-of-date if you are listening to the segment after some ...

In It for the Long Run: A Musical Odyssey is Jim Rooney's kaleidoscopic firsthand account of more than five decades of success as a performer, concert promoter, songwriter, music publisher, engineer, and record producer. As witness to and participant in over half a century of music history, Rooney provides a sophisticated window into American vernacular music. Following his stint as a Hayloft Jamboree hillbilly singer in the mid-1950s, Rooney managed Cambridge's Club 47, a catalyst of the '60s folk music boom.

This book collects all six of Mishka Shubaly's best-selling Kindle Singles - The Long Run, Are You Lonesome Tonight?, Shipwrecked, Bachelor Number One, Of Mice and Me, and Beat the Devil. Also included are several other short pieces by Mishka Shubaly and a special foreword by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.

The lessons we learn when we commit to long term journeys.Each episode hosts Tranos Makombe and Claudia Furmanczyk continue to prepare for their first marathon. They invite guests that have embarked on long journeys to share their story and reflect then on what lessons can be taken away and applied to their own lives and preparation training.

Meb Keflezighi is all about hope and second chances—starting with his very survival. The child of a small African country ravaged by a brutal war, Meb arrived in America with nothing but the clothes on his back, speaking no English and never having raced a mile. So how did he end up an A student, one of the most celebrated and respected athletes of his generation, and winner of the 2009 New York City Marathon?

Anyone can run a marathon. Dawn Dais makes it a little more bearable -- and a lot more fun Dawn Dais hated running. And it didn't like her much, either. Her fitness routine consisted of avoiding the stairs in her own house, because who really has the energy to climb stairs? It was with this...