A review by jcburcham
First Marathons: Personal Encounters with the 26.2-Mile Monster by Gail Waesche Kislevitz

5.0

(Copied from my Amazon.com review from Dec. 1999)
I want to buy this book for everyone I know because I firmly believe, after reading this book and having run my first marathon, that ANYONE can do it. I became so involved in the stories of these people, I couldn't put the book down and when I reached the end, I wanted more. So I ran my own marathon. I opened the book again, after I'd run the 26.2 mile monster, and randomly picked one of the stories...I started to cry because it suddenly meant so much to me. If you read this book, not only will you want to run a marathon, you'll believe you can make it happen.