On The Run - (Marty Liquori Bio)

Up for sale a copy of On The Run - In Search of the Perfect Race - Marty Liquori & Skip Myslenski. It's hardback with a dust jacket and in nice shape with some foxing to the corners. here's my review.

Liquori, Marty                                                                                                                                                                                                              # 205

On the Run : In Search of the Perfect Race

Author: Marty Liquori and Skip Myslenski     Publisher: 1979 William Morrow and Company, Inc. - New York - pp. 288

Biography of the third high school runner in history to break the 4:00 mile barrier, (1^st

Jim Ryun in 1965 and 2^nd Tim Danielson in 1966) running 3:59.8 in 1967. Liquori’s career as an

American distance runner had many ups and downs. The downs were injuries that keep him

from fulfilling his own personal goals that were so high that he comes off a little hard on himself

in the book for not accomplishing them, but to his fans he succeeded far more in our eyes that he

did in his own. “I knew some people might think I was giving up, but I wasn’t looking at it that

way. I couldn’t sit and cry over spilled milk and say I was robbed by injury the last time, then

again go after the gold metal in the 1,500. That wouldn’t have been smart. In my mind, all the

evidence pointed to my moving up, all logic said that conquering a new event was a greater

accomplishment that reclaiming an old position. I knew I had been the best in the 1,500 at one

time, when I was twenty-two, twenty-three, during the runner’s peak years for that race. To

climb a new mountain, to prove that I could be the best at yet another distance, that loomed as

a very real and a very alluring challenge to me.” The ups included being the top rated miler in the

world in 1969 and 1971. Being the American record holder during his era of the 2,000 meter run

and two mile run. Plus many N.C.C.A. titles and many thrilling victories over some the best

runners ever in the sport, like his victory over Jim Ryun in 1971 in which Liquori wrote “If you \

could capture the emotion of that moment and bottle it and hand it to a young runner, he

would spend the next ten years of his life striving for a similar achievement.” Liquori later went

on to be a commentator of track and field events around the world. Interesting read of classic

mile races and racers of the late sixties and early seventies spiced with opinionated comments and keen observations.          

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