The 2024 Cross Country season is over.
This is the second day of easy running.
good warm up
30 minutes of easy jogging or a day off, up to you.
cool well
Another offer of Christmas gifts.
By Haile Gebresless, Emperor of the Far Distance Jiro Mochizuki
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Haile-Gebrselassie-Emperor-Long-Distance/dp/0988711907
Jiro Mochizuki is one of the best sports photographers in the world, and he has a very special relationship with Hale, the most iconic athlete of our time. His book, first published in 2013, celebrates Haile Gebreslassi and the breadth of his career.
The photos are fantastic and the stories are even better.
I have known Giro and used his photographs for over thirty years.He is one of the most attentive photographers I have met. Jiro and Hayley have developed a wonderful relationship and this book is a labor of love.
It should be on your bookshelf as a coach or athlete.
Here’s a review from one of our favorite writers, Pat Butcher (at Globe Runner):
“There are too few decent books about athletics and its practitioners. But Haile Gebrselassie, the greatest cross-country runner in history, gets another volume to live up to his legend. And for that, he has another one.” to thank Jiro Mochizuki appears to have dropped out of the Seven Samurai set.However, the Japanese-born, Paris-based photographer has been a presence throughout Hale’s long career, and the pair have had a long-lasting relationship that has resulted in the publication of Haile Gebrselassie, The Emperor of Long Distance. : Giro began as a fine art photographer and published several books on his work, which were exhibited in art galleries in Europe and the East In the late 1980s, he established a sports photo agency in Tokyo.Jiro-san, the Emperor of Infield, provided most of the images in this volume. Meanwhile, Haley has provided unmediated words to guide us through his career, punctuated by the images themselves. from the historic first in 1988 by his elder brother Tekeye. Before Hale’s first marathon in Addis, would you believe he ran 2.48? But the rest of the selection is a celebration of Giro’s talent. seem to have been present for all of Hale’s countless victories over the past 20 years, an unparalleled career high for a runner. , for example, with scores of world records and firsts or more.This is another one. The book is available from Amazon.” -Pat Butcher Globe Runner
