Our book suggestion for the New Year is Pre! America’s Greatest Running Legend, by Tom Jordan
The cover of Pre! by Tom Jordan
The Pre! book has been one of my favorites since college. I have gone through 3 copies! The newest version, edited and written by Tom Jordan, and published by Rodale Press (publishers of Runners World magazine for many years), showcases the incredible talent and the complexity of the American distance runner, who took 4th in the Olympics in 1972 at the 5,000m, set ARs from 2 miles to 10,000m, and was killed in a car crash in 1975. Tom Jordan, besides writing the book, managed the NIKE Pre-Classic for most of its 45 years!
Other book suggestions: Self Made Olympian, by Ron Daws, , A Clean Pair of Heels by Murray Halberg, , Pre! by Tom Jordan.
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America’s first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: “I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself.” Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, ” I’m no Angel.”
