The milers. Once a runner (excerpt) / John L. Parker, Jr.
Wheelbarrow / Eddy Orcutt
The Olympian (excerpt) / Brian Glanville
The other kingdom (excerpt) / Victor Price.
The marathoners. See how they run / George Harmon Coxe
The loveliness of the long-distance runner / Sara Maitland
Long road to Boston (excerpt) / Bruce Tuckman
Going to run all night / Harry Sylvester.
The sprinters. Raymond's run / Toni Cade Bambara
Ten seconds (excerpt) / Louis Edwards
Gallipoli (excerpt) / Jack Bennett
The medal / George Ewart Evans.
Young runners. The winning bug / Jackson Scholz
The loneliness of the long-distance runner (excerpt) / Alan Sillitoe
Decline and fall (excerpt) / Evelyn Waugh
John Sobieski runs / James Buechler.
Murder, malice and madness. The runner / James Tabor
Third wind / Richard C. Matheson
Running / Joyce Carol Oates
We cannot save him / Lon Otto.
Assorted other runners. The track / Walter McDonald
Carbo-loading / Max Apple
Staying the distance (excerpt) / W.R. Loader
An evening at the track / Douglas Dunn.
Poems. Form and motivation. The runner / Walt Whitman
Runner (excerpt) / W.H. Auden
This runner / Francis Webb
The song of the ungirt runners / Charles Hamilton Sorley
Morning athletes / Marge Piercy
Strategy for a marathon / Marnie Mueller
Out on the course / William J. Vernon.
Poems. Winning and losing. The service / Burges Johnson
If (excerpt) / Rudyard Kipling
The finish / Daniel Hoffman
Interview with a winner / Donald Finkel
Joan Benoit : 1984 Olympic marathon gold medalist / Rina Ferrarelli.
Poems. Time, memory, and age. Running / Richard Wilbur
100m hurdles / William Borden
The sprinters / Lillian Morrison
Running the mile relay / Ron Rash
His running my running / Robert Francis
At Guaracara Park / Eric Roach.
Poems. Injury and death. Death of the track star / Bill Meissner
A jogging injury / Felda Brown Jackson
"Do we need an ambulance for cross country?" / Grace Butcher
Prefontaine / Charles Ghigna
The iliad (excerpt) / Homer
To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman.
