long-distance runners

Recounts the era in the 1970's when "jogging" became "running" through the lives and accomplishments of running greats, Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, and Alberto Salazar.

The author describes his work with Caballo Blanco, an outsider who befriended the Tarahumara Indians, in which the two men organized a running event between the tribesmen, who are considered to have superhuman running abilities, and Americans, including a ultramarathoner, a surfer, and others; and includes facts about techniques and the history of running.