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- James Dyson Dyson does not name the titles — he says only that he read “a few books” about Elliott — so this entry stands in for that reading, Elliott’s own 1961 account being the obvious candidate. Its ISBN is omitted because no verifiable ISBN-13 edition could be found; the 1961 original predates ISBNs. source ↗
Summary
Australian middle-distance runner Herb Elliott's 1961 account of how he broke the world mile record (3:54.5) and went undefeated through his entire career, coached by Percy Cerutty on the sand dunes of Portsea, Victoria. The book covers Cerutty's unorthodox methods — running barefoot on sand, weight training, diet — as much as Elliott's races.