runners (sports)

Simple text and photographs offer a brief biography of Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, winner of nine gold medals in the Olympics.

The autobiography of the fastest man of all time and a superstar whose talent and charisma have made him one of the most famous people on the planet.

The World Marathon Challenge?seven marathons on seven continents in seven days?is the ultimate race for adventurous runners. It tests the athletes to their limits, going from biting cold Antarctic conditions one day to dry desert heat another. To survive the onslaught of sensations?fear, fatigue, depression, elation?takes a special sort of determination and strength of will. Few would voluntarily take on such a challenge, and fewer still would finish it.

Wima Rudolph became a great American athlete. But do you know what she was like as a child? From battling polio to playing basketball, Wilma was a determined and strong child. This playful story of her childhood will help young readers connect with a historic figure and will inspire them to want to achieve greatness.

A compulsively readable, remarkably candid memoir from world class ultra-marathon runner Charlie Engle chronicling his globe-spanning races, his record-breaking run across the Sahara Desert, and how running helped him overcome drug addiction?and an unjust stint in federal prison.

A biography of John Tarrant who had been banned from competitive long-distance running but continued to crash the races and break records.

Jackrabbit McCabe's unusually long legs have made him the fastest thing around, and he uses his speed for everything from racing against horses to fetching the doctor, but when the electric telegraph arrives in Windy Flats, Jackrabbit may have met his match.

Explores the childhood of Julius Achon in Northern Uganda where he was made a boy soldier, his escape from the Lord's Resistance Army, his career as a top-level middle distance runner, and his charity work in Uganda.

Recreates the grueling, 1310-mile run that sixteen-year-old Patty Wilson, an epileptic, successfully completed in order to set the world distance record for women.

"Simple text and photographs present the life of Wilma Rudolph, the first American woman to win three Olympic gold medals"--Provided by publisher.