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Running To The Edge An American Running Guru A Mysterious Breakthrough and The Relentless Quest For Speed First Edition Futterman
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Also by Matthew Futterman
Players: How Sports Became a Business
Copyright © 2019 by Matthew Futterman
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of
Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Penguin
Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.
www.doubleday.com
DOUBLEDAY and the portrayal of an anchor with a dolphin are registered
trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Photograph on page viii courtesy of Robert Lusitania. Photograph on page 277
courtesy of Marathonfoto.
Cover photograph by Andrey Burmakin / Shutterstock
Cover design by John Fontana
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Futterman, Matthew, author.
Title: Running to the edge : A band of misfits and the guru who unlocked the
secrets of speed / by Matthew Futterman.
Description: First edition. | New York : Doubleday, 2019.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018049020 | ISBN 9780385543743 (hardcover) | ISBN
9780385543750 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Running—Training. | Running speed.
Classification: LCC GV1061.5 .F88 2019 | DDC 796.42071—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018049020
Ebook ISBN 9780385543750
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For my girls
Author’s Note
ONE
Bobcat
Why We Run
East Hampton, New York, September 2015
The First Horse: Ed Mendoza
Larchmont and Mamaroneck, New York, November 1979, September
1985
Another Piece for CBL: Tom Lux
Schenectady, New York, 1991
The Outlier: Terry Cotton
Peace and War
Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1992
The Birth of the Toads
September 7, 1996, Central Park, New York
The Jamul Toads
Hamptons Marathon, the Last 13.1, September 2015
1976
TWO
A Note on Sourcing
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Prologue
CHAPTER II.
A lion was once going to war; he had buckled on his sword, and
gathered his forces, and, with the monkey and the bear supporting
his long robe behind, he was proudly marching over the plain at the
head of his army. As he was proceeding, it chanced that his majesty
encountered a mouse, dancing merrily over the ground. The king
paused, and observed the little dancer with a grim smile of
satisfaction. At this the bear grumbled, and the monkey sneered, for
his majesty being in a warlike humor, they thought it meet that
everybody else should be so too; but they were both speedily
silenced by the lion, who spoke as follows:
“Why do you grumble at this pretty little fellow? See how graceful
his movements are, and how cheerful is his countenance!
Remember that everything has its use, and nothing is more useful
than that which makes us cheerful, provided it is innocent. Even we
warriors have need of cheerful excitement, for by this means we are
better fitted to discharge our solemn duties. Let us not despise, then,
even such sports, and amusements, and trifles, as come in our way,
provided always that they are as harmless as the frisks and frolics of
this little dancing-master of the meadow; and provided, too, that we
never neglect business for pleasure.”
Merry’s Life and Adventures.
CHAPTER X.
A conversation about wealth and poverty.—People to be respected
according to their character, not according to their
circumstances.