Napa Valley Marathon

This collection of stories follows Kardong on 10 years of adventure runs and marathons, from Montana's 50-mile Le Grizz race to a rim-to-rim-to rim run across the Grand Canyon to the first marathon in Vietnam. Kardong, a 1976 Olympic marathoner and Runners World contributing editor, has been lauded by Sports Illustrated as "the only spiritual descendent of Mark Twain ever to bring his unsparing eye and antic voice to running."