Part commentary, part training manual, part travelogue, and all about running,
Miles To Run, Promises to Keep, is the product of a decade of athletics reporting for The Irish Times. Insightful, inspiring and hugely entertaining reading for distance runners of all abilities, it captures the motivations and aspirations and sometimes even the folly of running - whether that be in the Olympics Games or the local 10km road race.
With a wide range of revealing encounters, including Ronnie Delany, Roger Bannister, John Treacy & Sonia O'Sullivan & Eamonn Coghlan, Haile Gebrselassie & Paul Tergat, this is a personal study of distance running in all its glory and apparent madness. From miles to marathons and everything in between, it is an honest and fascinating and often strange adventure.
And now that running has become a sort of morphine for the masses, Miles To Run, Promises to Keep also attempts to answer one of the profound questions of our age: Why do we run? The answer lies somewhere beyond The Wall and over The Edge.
