Amy MarxkorsThe Lola Papers
Marathons, Misadventures, and How I Became a Serious Runner
Amy Marxkors: Amy L. Marxkors grew up in the rural outskirts of St. Louis, Missouri, home-schooled. An ardent athlete, Amy spent her teenage years playing ice hockey and running the winding country roads. While working at Fleet Feet Sports, she began writing the stories that became The Lola Papers.
Preface
Prologue
WINTER
Chapter 1: A Lexicographer and a Runner Walk into a Bar...
Chapter 2: Stranger Things Have Happened in Cornfields
Chapter 3: The Track and Bob Dingy (Olympic Hero)
Chapter 4: The TMBG
Chapter 5: Mr. Speedy Pants's Old Buddy Tim
Chapter 6: Snot
Chapter 7: The Ballad of Howie Bout-That
SPRING
Chapter 8: The Tipper (And We're Not Talking Money)
Chapter 9: Twenty Quarters in the Rain
Chapter 10: Dude, Where's Batman? (The One About Plan B)
Chapter 11: The Run! St. Stanislaus Inaugural Marathon
SUMMER
Chapter 12: And That's How They Became Team Rodrigo
Chapter 13: With Flowers in Her Hair
Chapter 14: It's All in Your Head
Chapter 15: The Workout of Death
Chapter 16: Has Anyone Seen Bob Costas?
Chapter 17: The Funky Monkey 5K
Chapter 18: Of Burnout and Barry Manilow
Chapter 19: And Then There Were Two
Chapter 20: There is No "I" in Team But There is One in "Bike"
AUTUMN
Chapter 21: She's Got This Thing About Dinette Sets
Chapter 22: Chasing Sasquatch
Chapter 23: The First Three Miles
Chapter 24: The Wheatpatch Run for the Haystacks
Chapter 25: Run Well. Don't Cry. Have Fun. Don't Be a Dork.
Chapter 26: Haystacks Revisited (The Bleeding Heart Marathon)
Chapter 27: Haystacks Conquered
Epilogue
