Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross Country Team

Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross Country Team by Chris Lear

I wanted to like this book. The story was appealing, but the writing was not as engaging as I would have liked. The author was embedded with the Colorado cross country team. They were good. They were good. They always finished among the top teams, but never quite won it all. (Since then, the team has won multiple championships.) The training was very demanding. The coach had athletes set goals and held them too them. There was also tragedy in the season, with one runner dying while riding his bicycle. The book explores the backstory of some runners along with recruiting challenges. It is a good insight into collegiate cross country, but could be much better.