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Strange Running Tales: When Ultrarunning was a Reality Show (Ultrarunning History) Paperback – April 7, 2023

by Davy Crockett (Author)
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The sport of ultrarunning during the 19th century was filled with strange tales that are unthinkable and shocking to us today. This book highlights the most bizarre, shocking, funny, and head-scratching true stories that took place in extreme long-distance running, mostly during a 30-year period that began about 1875 when tens of thousands of people would pay to watch runners compete for days indoors. It was their version of a reality show, hoping to see runners break down and do bizarre things.

Tales include: fistfights on the track, strange hallucinations experienced while trying to run for six straight days, love scandals, corruption and bribery that crept into the sport, sickness, death, and even murder.

These stories were discovered by scouring thousands of newspaper articles published in the era with amazing details. They were often front-page stories in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Times, San Francisco Examiner, and other widely read newspapers. The drama-filled stories were serious best sellers, resulting in Extras being printed during races and telegrams sent worldwide.

"Loads of amusing stories. Well written and an eye-opener to what determined men and women were achieving long before the current running boom."
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0C1J1RHBT
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (April 7, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 260 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8390048375
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.59 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Davy Crockett

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David “Davy” R. Crockett is a veteran ultrarunner, historian, author, podcaster, and retired web developer. He began serious running in 2004 and finished more than one hundred 100-mile races during the next fourteen years. In 2005, he combined his love for running and history by organizing the “Pony Express Trail 50 and 100” held on the historic Pony Express Trail in the west desert of Utah.

Back in the mid-1990s, with his interest in 19th-century history, he began authoring books and published a series of books on the westward pioneer migration in the 1840s. He also published dozens of articles in magazines, newspapers, and encyclopedias.

In 2005, he ventured down into the Grand Canyon for the first time, running a double crossing (back and forth), a rim-to-rim-to rim. The Grand Canyon became his favorite place to hike and run. Since that day, he has hiked or run about 1,200 miles in the Canyon.

In 2016, as an experienced ultrarunner, Crockett developed an interest in the history of ultrarunning, and in 2018, he established ultrarunninghistory.com and the Ultrarunning History Podcast, authoring long articles and episodes every two weeks documenting long-forgotten stories of the sport. In 2020, he became the new Director of the American Ultrarunning Hall of Fame which is hosted on ultrarunninghistory.com. In 2022, he started to preserve his writings into books in the Ultrarunning History Series on Amazon. He and his wife Linda are the parents of six children and eleven grandchildren, all living in Utah.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Remarkable!
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This book deserves to be on any list of running or ultrarunning lists. The insights are remarkable; the stories often are humorous, intriguing, or some of both.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Hugely entertaining.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 1, 2023
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Loads of amusing stories. Well written and an eye-opener to what determined men and women were achieving long before the current running boom.
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