Table of Contents
- Street celebrity
- The boxer
- The three-mile run
- The truck drivers
- The jokers
- The fun run
- False encouragement
- The policeman's wrong turn
- Time splits
- Toledo Marathon splits
- A hard time
- The basketball player
- The competitive curse
- Guru's gratitude
- The dog's message
- Songs from running
- The embarrassing run
- Two divine beings
- First New York Marathon
- Two Long Island Marathons
- The oath
- Running the New York Marathon
- The first competition
- The post-marathon one-mile race
- California races
- The private conversation
- The massage
- Meditating on George Gardiner
- The big hand
- Running equals
- Birthday hill work
- Two-mile rivals
- The guard-runner
- Gary Fanelli in Philadelphia
- Practice marathons
- Pace problems
- The record-breaker
- Two firsts
- Guruji is dying
- Everything is proper
- Here is Sri!
- Our Rosie Ruiz
- Do you want a cigar?
- Strengthening the chest
- Freezing in Florida
- Waiting for the bus
- The twenty-four-hour-race friend
- The windy marathon
- Slow calculations
- The crowded start
- Do it quickly
- The food of champions
- Editor's preface to the first edition