Great Old School Running Books

I like all of Frank Murphy's books especially

"The Silence of Great Distance"

You'll get a lot of training books. These are all fiction, some hard to find/expensive out of print/and some of the authors on this board. OAR leads the list:

1) Once a Runner, Parker, Jr.
2) Again to Carthage, Parker, Jr.

3) Racing Shadows, Dill
4) The Long Run of Myles Mayberry, Alcorn
5) Other Kingdom, Price
6) The Purple Runner, Christman
7) The River Road, Barker
8) Pain, Middleman
9) Olympian - Granville

No Bugles, No Drums…Peter Snell

The Jim Ryun Story

The Dave Bedford Story

Percy Cerutty book, forget the title

"What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" by Haruki Murakami

The Unforgiving Minute, Ron Clarke

The Lonely Breed, Ron Clarke

And a bio of Jack Lovelock--sorry, can't remember the title.

All three wonderful. Used to own the first two before I gave them away on this site, some years back.

Run Run Run by Fred Wilt considered the bible on training at that time.

Great suggestions!

It is more recent but "Running With the Buffaloes" is very good

Long Road to Boston, I believe Bruce Tuckman wrote it.

"Why Die?"

GREAT BOOK (and great title!)

Jim Ryun Master of the mile. Day to day account of Ryuns rise from the beginning.

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My running Books, with a few assorted cycling and triathlon
books. Several have an editor, not an author.
1.
Abt – Lemond: The Incredible Comeback of an
American Hero
2.
Annerino – Running Wild
3.
Armijo – The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cycling
4.
Atkinson – The Games
5.
Averbuch – The Woman Runner
6.
Bascomb – The Perfect Mile
7.
Battista – The Runner’s Literary Companion
8.
Bannister – The Four Minute Mile
9.
Beck – Run Strong
10.
Benyo – Making the Marathon Your Event
11.
Benyo – The Masters of the Marathon
12.
Bloch – How to Train for and Run Your Best
Marathon
13.
Bloom – The Marathon
14.
Bloom – Run With the champions
15.
Bloom – The Runner’s Bible
16.
Brandt – Duel in the Sun
17.
Carlson – Tales of Gold
18.
Clayton – Running to the Top
19.
Dellinger – The Competitive Runner’s Training
Book
20.
Derderian – Boston Marathon
21.
Derse – AAF/ CIF Cross Country Coaching Program
22.
Dick – Training Theory
23.
Dolson – Always Young
24.
Emmerton – The Official Book of Running
25.
Falls – The Boston Marathon
26.
Fitzgerald – Iron War
27.
Fixx – The Complete Book of Running
28.
Fixx – The Complete Book of Running
29.
Fixx – The Complete Book of Running
30.
Fixx – The Complete Book of Running
31.
Fixx – Jim Fixx’s Second Book of Running
32.
Fletcher – Spaghetti Every Friday
33.
Fletcher – Spaghetti Every Friday (signed, but
not to me)
34.
Galloway – Galloway’s Book on Running
35.
Galloway – Galloway’s Book on Running (signed,
but not to me)
36.
Giller – The Golden Milers
37.
Glover – The Competitive Runner’s Handbook
38.
Glover - The Injured Runner’s Training Handbook
39.
Gross - Endurance
40.
Hanna – Running With Your Head
41.
Hayes – Run, Bullet, Run
42.
Heinonen – Sports Illustrated Running for Women
43.
Heinrich – Racing the Antelope
44.
Heinrich – Why We Run
45.
Henderson – Road Racers and Their Training
46.
Henderson – Run Gently, Run Long
47.
Henderson – Running A to Z
48.
Higdon – Beginner’s running Guide
49.
Higdon – Boston
50.
Higdon – The Complete Diet Guide for Runners and
Other Athletes
51.
Higdon – How to Train
52.
Higdon – Marathon
53.
Higdon – The Marathoners
54.
Higdon – On the Run From Dogs and People
55.
Higdon – Run Fast
56.
Hirsch – The Runners
57.
Hirsch – The Runners
58.
Hudson – Run Faster From the 5K to the Marathon
59.
Hollobaugh – 100 Stars of American Track and
Field
60.
Hosler – Boston: America’s Oldest Marathon
61.
Humphreys – Focus on Middle Distance Running
62.
Jackson – Life at These Speeds
63.
Jerome – The Sweet Spot in Time
64.
Killanin – The Olympic Games 1984
65.
Lawrence – The Self Coached Runner
66.
Lawrence – The Self Coached Runner
67.
Lawrence – The Self Coached Runner II
68.
Lawrence – Running and Racing After 35
69.
Lawson – World Record Breakers in Track and
Field Athletics
70.
Lear – Running With the Buffaloes
71.
Lebow – The New York Road Runners Club Complete
Book of Running
72.
Lenton - Interviews
73.
Lewis – Inside Track
74.
Lilliefors – Total Running
75.
Liquori – Marty Liquori’s Guide for the Elite
Runner
76.
Liquori – Marty Liquori’s Guide for the Elite
Runner
77.
Long – Cross Country for Coaches and Runners
78.
Lydiard – Running the Lydiard Way (signed, but
not to me)
79.
Martin – Training Distance Runners
80.
Martin – Better Training for Distance Runners
81.
McClinton – Cross – Country Runner
82.
Moore – Best Efforts
83.
Moore – Bowerman and the Men of Oregon
84.
Moore – Bowerman and the Men of Oregon (signed,
but not to me)
85.
Murphy – A Cold Clear Day
86.
Nepolitan – Training Profiles: high School Boys
Distance
87.
Noakes – Lore of Running
88.
Noakes – Lore of Running
89.
Osler – Serious runner’s Handbook
90.
Parker – Once a Runner
91.
Pfitzinger – Advanced Marathoning (signed by
Scott Douglas to me)
92.
Pfitzinger – Road Racing for Serious Runners
93.
Plant – Iron Will
94.
Rodgers – Bill Rodgers’ Lifetime Running Plan
95.
Rodgers – Marathoning
96.
Runner’s World – The Complete Marathoner
97.
Runner’s world – The Complete Runner
98.
Runner’s World – The Complete Runner
99.
Runner’s World – Guide to Distance Running
100.
Samuelson – Running for Women
101.
Sandrock – Running With the Legends
102.
Schreiber – Training to run the Perfect Marathon
103.
Schul – In the Long Run
104.
Scott – The Miler
105.
Shapiro – On the Road
106.
Sheehan – Running to Win
107.
Sheehan – Running and Being
108.
Sheehan – This Running Life
109.
Sheehan – This Running Life
110.
Sheehan – This Running Life
111.
Sparks – Long Distance Runner’s Guide to
Training and Racing
112.
Sparks – Runners Book of Training Secrets
113.
Squires – Improving Your Runner
114.
Squires – Improving Women’s Running
115.
Steffney – Running for Women
116.
Strasser – The Story of Nike and the Men Who
Played There
117.
Suozza – The Chicago Marathon
118.
Ullyot – Running Free
119.
Waitz – World Class
120.
Wallechinsky – The Complete Book of the Olympics
121.
Wallechinsky – The Complete Book of the Olympics
122.
Weinberg – Foundations of Sport and Exercise
Psychology
123.
Williams – C.C. Pyle’s Amazing Footrace
124.
Will-Weber – The Quotable Runner
Pamphlets and Booklets
1.
Bergen – Championship Drills and Workouts/Middle
Distance and Cross Country
2.
TFN – High School Track 1976
3.
TFN – High School Track 1978
4.
Track and Field News – Talking Track
5.
Kardong – Children’s Running
6.
TFN – Big Red Book
7.
Watman – Olympic Track and Field Athletics guide
8.
RW – 1974 Marathon Handbook
9.
RW – The Boston Marathon
10.
RW – Dave Wottle Story
11.
RW – Exercises for Runners
12.
RW – The Frank Shorter Story
13.
RW – The Frank Shorter Story
14.
RW – Interval Training
15.
RW – The Runner’s Diet
16.
RW – Runner’s Training Guide
17.
RW – Runner’s Training Guide
18.
RW – Tale of the Ancient Marathoner
19.
RW – Tale of the Ancient Marathoner
20.
RW – The Varied World of Cross-Country
21.
RW – The Young runner

The Self-Made Olympian, Ron Daws

Running Your Best - Ron Daws

No Bugles, No Drums

The Milers

the Jim Ryun Story

a cold clear day

Kiwis can fly

Bannister biography

steve cram: the making of an athlete

ovett: an autobiography

Marathon: The Clarence DeMar Story.

The first running book I ever bought.

https://www.amazon.com/Running-Top-Derek-Clayton/dp/0020282303

Did you even bother putting these in a spreadsheet or something and getting rid of duplicates? There are quite a few.

The "How They Train" paperbacks are great. Many elite runners with profiles and sample training weeks.

Michael Crawley - Out of thin air