Once a runner (excerpt) / J.L Parker, Jr. -- Wheelbarrow / E. Orcutt -- The Olympian (excerpt) / B. Glanville -- The other kingdom (excerpt) / V. Price -- See how they run / G.H. Coxe -- The loveliness of the long-distance runner / S. Maitland -- Long road to Boston (excerpt) / B. Tuckman -- Going to run all night / H. Sylvester -- Raymond's run / T.C. Bambara -- Ten seconds (excerpt) / L. Edwards -- Gallipoli (excerpt) / J. Bennett -- The medal / G.E. Evans --
The winning bug / J. Scholz -- The loneliness of the long-distance runner (excerpt) / A. Sillitoe -- Decline and fall (excerpt) / E. Waugh -- John Sobieski runs / J. Buechler -- The runner / J. Tabor -- Third wind / R.C. Matheson -- Running / J.C. Oates -- We cannot save him / L. Otto -- The track / W. McDonald -- Carbo-loading / M. Apple -- Staying the distance (excerpt) / W.R. Loader -- An evening at the track / D. Dunn --
The runner / W. Whitman -- Runner (excerpt) / W.H. Auden -- This runner / F. Webb -- The song of the ungirt runners / C.H. Sorley -- Morning athletes / M. Piercy -- Strategy for a marathon / M. Mueller -- Out on the course / W.J. Vernon -- The service / B. Johnson -- If / R. Kipling -- The finish / D. Hoffman -- Interview with a winner / D. Finkel -- Joan Benoit: 1984 Olympic marathon gold medalist / R. Ferrarelli --
The sprinters / L. Morrison
His running my running / R. Francis
At Guaracara Park / E. Roach
Death of the track star / B. Meissner
A jogging injury / F.B. Jackson
"Do we need an ambulance for cross country?" / G. Butcher
The Iliad (excerpt) / Homer
To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman.