A new book by David Chalfen offers a wealth of anecdotes and opinions from the last half-century
David Chalfen has been immersed in athletics since the 1970s as a 2:32 marathon runner and coach with Highgate Harriers, Serpentine, and Shaftesbury Barnet. He has managed international distance runners and worked with UK Sport and Sport England. He is a keen writer, too, with his first book, Improve Your Marathon and Half Marathon Running, enjoying good reviews.
His latest book is entitled A Few More Laps A Deep Dive Into The Sharp End of Running and Coaching and is packed with stories from a lifetime in the sport. He looks at the trends that the running world has undergone and the people and events that have shaped it.
A Deep Dive into UK Endurance Running: Insights and Endorsements
The foreword is written by Dave Bedford, the former world 10,000m record-holder, who gives the author the stamp of approval in the opening section of the book. There are also endorsements from athletes such as Mara Yamauchi and Dan Robinson. We can confirm the book is a highly interesting read, especially if you have followed endurance running in the UK over the past 20-30 years or more Deep Dive.
This book is not simply about British athletics, though. Chalfen is well-traveled and, among other things, once tried to set up a training camp in Kenya. He has particularly good knowledge of the Kenyan and Spanish distance running cultures and he talks extensively about them in the book Deep Dive.
He is not afraid to write about the murkier aspects of athletics either. The book is primarily a love letter to running and his enthusiasm for the sport oozes from the pages, but he also chronicles the sport in a warts-and-all fashion. Sometimes the topics are so delicate that he has to refrain from mentioning who the anonymous characters are, although in some cases it’s not hard to work them out Deep Dive.
What’s more, the book is laced with humor and Chalfen mentions his own running in a self-deprecating fashion. Not surprisingly, there are multiple welcome mentions for Athletics Weekly too Deep Dive.
The book, which is 196 pages in length, is hot off the press as well as it was published just after the Paris Olympics.
A Couple of Additional Laps’ by David Chalfen. A profound plunge into the sharp finish of running and instructing Foreword by Dave Bedford, previous 10,000m World Record Holder Deep Drive.
A Deep Dive into Running Culture: Insights from 45 Years in the Sport
As the universe of running widens its allure, the creator dives into his 45 years of involvement with the game, as a competitor, mentor, and executive, to inspect the patterns, individuals, and occasions that have molded it. Deep Drive Involving his own encounters as a beginning stage, he then, at that point, extends the focal point to pen definite profiles of the scope of current and ongoing undeniable level sprinters he has trained and driving English mentors, giving a clever kind of the characters of these entertainers at public and worldwide levels. The creator likewise dives into parts of Kenyan and Spanish-running societies in view of his organizations and encounters with their ways of dealing with the game Deep Drive.
Through additional meetings and exploration, he gives enthusiastic and sincere photos of certain greats of the game, for example, Dave Bedford and previous Republic 10,000 meters champion Jon Solly.
The creator takes a gander at the tides that shift the harmony between the “game” and “relaxation ” strands of distance running and draws out that while it is a perpetually thrilling world to become enmeshed in and fills in as a passage to the full scope of sports occasions, it is never completely liberated from voracity and debasement Deep Drive.
Distributed soon after the 2024 Paris Olympics, it comes completely fully informed regarding current experiences in the high degrees of distance running Deep Drive.
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