Looniness Of Long Distance Author:Russell Taylor, Carlton Books From a Soho night club in downtown London, to the dark streets of Liverpool, to the Verrazano Bridge ("the longest urinal in the world") and the Tomb of the Athenians, this strange and hilarious record of inflated ambition, erratic motivation, and unlikely yet inspiring endurance will have every runner laughing in commiserative delight. ... more »Out-of-shape and hammered more often than not, Russell Taylor, nearing 40, begins training for the NYC marathon as something of a midlife crisis. His journey from the treadmill in North London to the mountains of Wales to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway illuminates the meaning of the egalitarian race, the only sport where any weekend jogger can run with world class champions.« less