A Marathon of Running Jokes: From Parkrun to Ultra - laugh your way to glory!

by Stuart Macfarlane

Runners! They are on our streets! They are in our parks! They bound in droves along our country trails! They are everywhere! Never in the history of mankind have so many people been prepared to leave the comfort of their homes and plod the cruel roads wearing little more than their underwear. Running has reached pandemic level and there seems to be no cure for this obsessive condition.What is causing this? Is it because our television programs are now so terminally boring? Have our pubs started selling poor quality beer and wine? Has there been a universal plummeting of our sex drive that causes us to eject from our unconsummated beds at 7am each morning? Or has something in our DNA changed causing the widespread masochism that now makes the pain of running for miles somehow a feeling to be cherished?Whatever the cause, the problem has now reached crisis level. You are now more likely to win a prize on the National Lottery than be successful in the ballot for the London Marathon. Even races of fifty gruelling mountainous miles have been known to sell out within minutes of online entry opening. If you are one of the afflicted, you will enjoy this book, for you are sure to identify with the obsession that often makes what we do so very, very amusing. If you are one of the few people who do not take to the streets five times a week to torture your body you are guaranteed a few laughs at the expense of those of us who do. So, take some time off from your training (or from your burgers and beer if you are a non-runner), sit back, relax and enjoy. [Note: Reading this book counts as cross-training.]

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521919135
• ISBN13: 9781521919132
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"