30-10-2009, 01:18 PM,
(This post was last modified: 30-10-2009, 01:40 PM by The Beast of Bevendean.)
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Running: a global history
I came across this on the London Review of Books list of Christmas books. Has anyone read it? Any good? And how, I wonder, should we pronounce the author's name?
Gotaas, Thor
Running: a global history
Reaktion, 2009
978-1861895264
![[Image: 51k2%2By6FT5L._SL160_.jpg]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51k2%2By6FT5L._SL160_.jpg)
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30-10-2009, 02:23 PM,
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Sweder
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RE: Running: a global history
Nice work Tom, even if you did mention the C word 
My guess would be Got Arse. Hmm ... Thor Got Arse ... Norse God of Brighton perhaps?
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30-10-2009, 05:06 PM,
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RE: Running: a global history
Did the Vikings get this far south? But yes, that seems plausible.
It's curious, from the blurb the book could either be fascinating or utter tripe. I shall hie me to a bookshop and browse a copy before spending the Burra Mem's gin money. A quick check of catalogues found no copies in any of the public libraries I use.
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30-10-2009, 05:42 PM,
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RE: Running: a global history
Archaic? What do they mean? In everyday use chez Roper.
Serendipitous though, wouldn't you say? Like the compliers who were supposed to have put the codenames for various D-Day operations into the Telegraph crossword.
Time for a Friday evening run now: a quick five miles up and down the front.
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30-10-2009, 05:46 PM,
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RE: Running: a global history
To encounter the word for the first and second time within hours? Serendipitous indeed, sir. Happy seafront plodding.
In a clumsily-attempted segue I too must dash for a Friday night appointment with our very own Seafront Plodder, along with Captain Tom, at the Dorset Arms. It'll end in tears, or at the very least the Spice Merchant Pre-Brighton 10k tactics no dount to the fore. I fear tomorrow's (2nd Anniversary) B&H ParkRun 5k will be a perilously wobbly affair ...
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30-10-2009, 06:53 PM,
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RE: Running: a global history
Steer clear of Spice Merchant: a friend's hen night is due in there. Wedding tomorrrow. Bride was a gymnast in her youth, but runs a bit now: turned cartwheels at the end of the Race for Life
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30-10-2009, 06:59 PM,
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RE: Running: a global history
I suspect that will only encourage the Plodder.
Can't deny him a ruby again - almost hit meltdown last time we pulled the 'we're not hungry' stunt. Will watch out for cartwheeling brides-to-be.
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30-10-2009, 09:14 PM,
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RE: Running: a global history
(30-10-2009, 05:42 PM)tomroper Wrote: Archaic? What do they mean? In everyday use chez Roper.
Hie thee to victory, good Sir - mastery of language do oft prove to good profit.
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03-03-2010, 07:47 PM,
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RE: Running: a global history
Providence, working through my son, has just given me a copy of Mr Gotaas's work, as a late birthday present...not his fault, but Amazon's.
I shall read it and offer a review.
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