My Marathon: Reflections On A Gold Medal Life

"Before I’d read a page of My Marathon I assumed it would be your fairly typical “how I became a champ” autobiography by a sports legend. I was dead wrong. In this compelling, engaging work, gold medalist Frank Shorter writes with brutal honesty about how the sport helped him evade a monstrously abusive father who terrorized him and his siblings. You don’t have to be a marathoner to appreciate all that Shorter overcame to become an Olympic champion and “father of the modern running boom” in America."