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"""A Runner Reminisces"" by Andrew Sherwood is a collection of essays on his years of running around the world, from a first disastrous attempt at cross-country in his Scottish boarding school to winning US national championships in late middle age. Along the way he is followed by inquisitive monkeys in Malaysia, attacked by vicious magpies in Australia, runs with an armed escort beside the River Nile in Egypt, narrowly escapes a fate worse than death in Tunisia, takes part in an Olympic Games Marathon Trial, races up a precipitous Welsh mountain, breaks a world record with his team from Atlanta and shakes hands with Sir Roger Bannister."

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Andrew Sherwood, UK native, US resident, spent fifty years traveling the world as an international business manager for advanced technology companies. He was involved in projects that included the Concorde supersonic airliner, the catalytic converter in your car, the clothes you wear, even the money in your wallet. After running cross-country at school Andrew took up the sport again in middle age and has enjoyed almost forty years as a distance runner at local, regional and national levels. He has competed with the Atlanta Track Club team in marathons, long-distance relays and national track meets. Andrew is married, has a thriving bunch of children and grandchildren, and lives in Atlanta, GA.

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