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| Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross-Country Team | 
 enlarge | Author: Chris Lear
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 22782
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 1585748048
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.420978863
EAN: 9781585748044
ASIN: 1585748048
Publication Date: July 1, 2003
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Product Description
In RUNNING WITH THE BUFFALOES, writer Chris Lear follows the University of Colorado cross-country team through an unforgettable NCAA season. Allowed unparalleled access to team practices, private moments, and the mind of Mark Wetmore--one of the country's most renowned and controversial coaches--Lear provides a riveting look inside the triumphs and heartaches of a perennial national contender and the men who will stop at nothing to achieve excellence. The Buffaloes' 1998 season held great promise, with Olympic hopeful Adam Goucher poised for his first-ever NCAA cross-country title, and the University of Colorado shooting for its first-ever national team title. But in the rigorous world of top-level collegiate sports, blind misfortune can sabotage the dreams of individuals and teams alike. In a season plagued by injury and the tragic loss of a teammate, the Buffaloes were tested as never before. What these men managed to achieve in the face of such adversity is the stuff of legend and glory.
With passion and suspense, Lear captures the lives of these young men and offers a glimpse of what drives a gifted runner like Adam Goucher and a great coach like Mark Wetmore. Like Lance Armstrong's It's Not About the Bike, RUNNING WITH THE BUFFALOES is at once a glowing celebration of a sport and an inspiration to anyone who has ever had the courage to beat the odds and follow a dream.
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 Some background on Chris Lear's promotion of this book October 28, 2008
This is a great book.
Here's a story about the creation and promotion of this book -- which launched Chris as a bestselling sports author. This is an excerpt from my book, Book Marketing DeMystified: Enjoy Discovering the Optimal Way to Sell Your Self-Published Book, Practical advice from the inventor of print-on-demand (POD) publishing...
Chris Lear, a competitive cross country runner and freelance sportswriter,
knew all about focusing on one's personal goals. Chris saw publishing
through an on-demand service [Trafford Publishing] as a cost-effective
and fast way to refine and market-test his new
book in order to get `scouted' up to the major leagues
of publishing. Chris threw himself full-time into publicity
and promotion: speaking at athletic meets and
camps, ensuring that elite running stores were displaying
the book, securing reviews from Sports Illustrated,
USA Today and other media, contacting everyone he knew. Meanwhile
early readers were providing comments that fed into 30(!) rounds of revisions and corrections to perfect his story. The book was Running With
The Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher and
the University of Colorado's Men's Cross Country Team.
The result of Chris's 6-month marketing sprint? Chris's book was
high on Amazon.com's sports bestseller list, and The Lyons Press offered
him a contract - with an impressive advance on royalties - for
a new hardcover edition [isbn 9781585743285] with a national advertising
and publicity budget. Chris had won his first race as an author
and was soon commissioned to write another running classic called Sub
4:00: Alan Webb and the Quest for the Fastest Mile [Rodale Books, isbn
9781579547462].
Chris's purpose (getting his book picked up by a major sports publishing
house) pointed to the optimal marketing mix solution: refining
his product while promoting through publicity and personal sales, and
ensuring it was available in influential places.
I highly recommend both of Chris's book -- very readable AND informative.
Hard to put down June 26, 2008
Incredibly engaging, very hard to put down. This book is a well written documentary of a season with the University of Colorado cross country team. It mixes team dynamics, coaching, training, and racing in an informative and engrossing way. It is difficult to imagine a current/former cross country or distance runner not relating to parts of, and thoroughly enjoying, this book.
Easy Read. Great Book! April 7, 2008
Running with the Buffaloes was a great depiction of the CU X-cntry team. As a former Division 1 college cross country runner I have heard of Wetmore's heavy mileage programs, but really was able to gain a better understanding of it in his pseudo diary. I was also able to gain an appreciation of the team's woes through one of it's hardest seasons losing a member of the team and the numerous injuries they had. A must read for all runners and a great read for any athlete who wants to compete at a higher level.
 Entertaining, but beware... February 25, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought three copies of this book (and 2 other non-fiction, cross country based running stories "Harriers" and "God on the Starting Line"). I had the intent of donating two copies of each of these three to our local school libraries (middle and high schools) in the desire of trying to bring more attention to youth running in our semi-rural, football-is-everything Southern town. Big mistake with this story, for one main reason: just the titles of several of the chapters themselves contain unacceptable language for a school library. In fact, if I listed the chapter title names here I would bet that this review would be removed due to profanity.
The content of the book is undeniably a very entertaining read, but the book as a whole is best left OUT of school libraries.
Wonderful January 15, 2008
Great detail. As a coach I actually used some of the work outs that he goes into great detail about.
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