Tale of the Ancient Marathoner: Jack Foster's Own Story (Runner's Monthly # 41) by Foster, Jack

Publisher: Runners World Magazine, California, 1974.

Good softback, some rubbing, fading, foxing, creasing and marks, back cover is quite creased, bookseller's stamp inside front cover, light tanning and creasing, minor marks.
48 pages, illustrated.

John Charles Foster (23 May 1932 – 5 June 2004) was a long-distance runner. He represented New Zealand in the men's marathon at two Summer Olympics at Munich, West Germany (1972) and Montreal, Canada (1976). He made the team for the 1975 International Cross Country Championships, where his country took the title.
A resident of Rotorua, he won the silver medal in the marathon at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch with a master's world record time of 2:11:18.6 at the age of 41. Two years earlier, he had set a world record for 20 miles at 1:39:14.

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