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Summary
"The 1982 Boston Marathon was great theater: two American runners, one a renowned champion and the other a gutsy underdog, going at each other for just under 2 hours and 9 minutes. Other famous marathons have featured narrow margins of victory, with the suspense developing late in the race, the product of a rapidly fading leader or furiously closing challenger. At the '82 Boston, by contrast, Dick Beardsley and Alberto Salazar ran in each other's pockets the entire 26.2 miles, with no other competitor near them for the final 9 miles. They were so close that, for most of the last half of the race, Beardsley, while in the lead, monitored Salazar's progress by watching his shadow on the asphalt." "Neither man broke, and neither, in any meaningful sense, lost. The race merely came to a thrilling, shattering end, leaving both runners, in separate and ultimately pyrrhic ways, the winner. Since Beardsley was just 26 and Salazar 23, everyone assumed that this would be the start of a long and glorious rivalry, one that would galvanize the public and seal American dominance in the sport through the 1984 Olympics and beyond. But rather than a beginning, Boston '82 represented a climax - it exacted such an enormous toil that neither man ever ran as well again. If the glory of their marathon bore a heroic quality, so did their suffering and deliverance afterward: Beardsley, the most innocent of men, fell into felony drug addiction; and Salazar, the toughest of men, fell prey to depression. Powerful, unconscious forces brought these two great athletes together at the Boston Marathon and drove their lives in the years that followed." "Duel in the Sun captures the delicate balance between hope and desperation that characterized Dick Beardsley, Alberto Salazar, and America's greatest marathon."--BOOK JACKET.
Author Biography
John Brant has been a contributing editor for Outside magazine since 1992.
Table of Contents
In 1982, Alberto Salazar and Dick Beardsley ran the entire 26.2 miles of the Boston Marathon neck and neck, finishing within two seconds of each other. For both, it was the pinnacle of a running career cut short, for Salazar because of a mysterious malaise, and for Beardsley because of a drug addiction that developed after a farm accident. Brant, a Runner's World writer, weaves the tension of the race into the story of the decline of both runners. . . The story is sad yet triumphant; despite the end of serious running careers, both men made successes of their lives.
"Taut, thrilling, and insightful, Duel in the Sun transcends the boundaries of sportswriting to give us a tale for the ages." --Daniel Coyle, author of Lance Armstrong's War and Hardball: A Season in the Projects
"Americans love their champions impossibly mythic. With this gripping retelling of the most exciting Boston Marathon in recent memory, John Brant leads readers not simply across the grueling 26.2 miles that Alberto Salazar and Dick Beardsley ran in 1982, but through later challenges that made their defining athletic achievement look easy." --Donovan Webster, author of The Burma Road and Aftermath: The Remnants of War
"A beautiful, heartbreaking book. Before the finish line, we've been to Castro's Cuba and on pilgrimage to Croatia, we've faced down addiction and depression, have made final peace with the failings of our bodies, and are left with the final triumph of two men, at odds, though bound by will and desire. Like that marathon 25 years ago, Duel in the Sun is absolutely riveting." --Michael Paterniti author of Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain
"This reads like a thriller, but packs the full payload of meticulously researched non-fiction with details that even I, who actually ran Boston that year, had been unaware of. Deeply moving, Duel in the Sun gives loving, but also ruthless portraits of two extraordinary athletes." --Benjamin H. Cheever, author of The Good Nanny and the forthcoming history of running Strides
"John Brant gives us a wonderful, in-depth look at a classic battle. Even better, he gives us an intimate look at two wildly different American distance runners—their dreams, their triumphs, their foibles, their epic struggles, and the day their lives converged in the streets of Boston." --Don Kardong, 1976 U.S. Olympic Team
"So prodigiously obsessive that they were impossible even for their coaches to restrain, Alberto Salazar and Dick Beardsley lived out their natures--and their futures--in one great, killing race. Both were driven by the need for consuming effort. Both succeeded--to the point of near obliteration. John Brant's extraordinary book lets us enter and share each's gloriously defining dementia. We emerge, as they themselves have,knowing a peace that could not have been harder earned." --Kenny Moore, writer for Sports Ilustrated, two-time Olympic marathoner, and author of Bowerman and the Men of Oregon
"Taut, thrilling, and insightful, Duel in the Sun transcends the boundaries of sportswriting to give us a tale for the ages." --Daniel Coyle, author of Lance Armstrong's War and Hardball: A Season in the Projects
"Americans love their champions impossibly mythic. With this gripping retelling of the most exciting Boston Marathon in recent memory, John Brant leads readers not simply across the grueling 26.2 miles that Alberto Salazar and Dick Beardsley ran in 1982, but through later challenges that made their defining athletic achievement look easy." --Donovan Webster, author of The Burma Road and Aftermath: The Remnants of War
"A beautiful, heartbreaking book. Before the finish line, we've been to Castro's Cuba and on pilgrimage to Croatia, we've faced down addiction and depression, have made final peace with the failings of our bodies, and are left with the final triumph of two men, at odds, though bound by will and desire. Like that marathon 25 years ago, Duel in the Sun is absolutely riveting." --Michael Paterniti author of Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain
"This reads like a thriller, but packs the full payload of meticulously researched non-fiction with details that even I, who actually ran Boston that year, had been unaware of. Deeply moving, Duel in the Sun gives loving, but also ruthless portraits of two extraordinary athletes." --Benjamin H. Cheever, author of The Good Nanny and the forthcoming history of running Strides
"John Brant gives us a wonderful, in-depth look at a classic battle. Even better, he gives us an intimate look at two wildly different American distance runners—their dreams, their triumphs, their foibles, their epic struggles, and the day their lives converged in the streets of Boston." --Don Kardong, 1976 U.S. Olympic Team
"So prodigiously obsessive that they were impossible even for their coaches to restrain, Alberto Salazar and Dick Beardsley lived out their natures--and their futures--in one great, killing race. Both were driven by the need for consuming effort. Both succeeded--to the point of near obliteration. John Brant's extraordinary book lets us enter and share each's gloriously defining dementia. We emerge, as they themselves have,knowing a peace that could not have been harder earned." --Kenny Moore, writer for Sports Ilustrated, two-time Olympic marathoner, and author of Bowerman and the Men of Oregon
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