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Title: Olympic Gold: A Runner's Life and Times by Frank Shorter, Marc Bloom ISBN: 0-395-35403-X Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: May, 1984 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Review of Olympic Marathoner Frank Shorter's LIfe
Comment: Pretty good detail on Frank Shorter's rise from a pretty fair HS distance runner to a versatile athlete that could run national and world class 5Ks, 10Ks and marathons. He and Prefontaine kicked off the running boom. Shorter was part of the great USA running elite and central character in the outstanding Florida Track Club. Also, detail in his fight to establish more control of the American track athlete's rights to compete from the then AAU and the now TAC. Although I enjoyed the book I found it a bit choppy. It reminded me of a telling told in a series of interviews that sometimes overlap in detail. I think a greater collaberation would have been more effective if Kenny Moore (Sports Illustrated writer and 4th place USA finisher to Shorter's gold) wrote it with Shorter.

Rating: 5
Summary: A Very Fun Read
Comment: I have a copy of this book at home autographed by Frank himself, and I've enjoyed it immensely. Some people might find it a bit dated. It covers Frank's days at Yale U. when he decided to work harder at running to see how good he could get. It follows his post-graduate days, his training, the other famous runners he hung out with (from roughly 1969 to 1972), then there is an extensive write up on his 1972 Olympic gold medal and he discusses each stage of the race. The book I have was written before the 1976 Oympics, where he won the silver medal (beat by Waldemar Cierpinski from the GDR who was alegedly under performance enhancing drugs). Anyway, the book is a very fun read, lest we forget that Frank Shorter "invented" running and with the help of ABC's Roone Arledge, created the massive running boom that started after his victory, sustained throughout the 70's and still continues today. I still think he is the greatest long distance runner the USA has ever turned out. This book, more like a pamphlet than a hardbound tome, is still inspiring and great fun to read. It has lots and lots of pictures, all in black and white.