David Renton was in his mid-teens a county standard middle-distance runner. He tells the story of how he began to run, influenced by his father's career as a rower.
Lives; Running draws on the rivalry between Seb Coe and Steve Ovett, portrayed as a contest between two opposed philosophies, one neo-liberal, the other subjugating competition to a richer sense of personal achievement.
He describes his father's attempts to find ideas that would guide his life and portrays running as a step towards a world of freedom.
