VETERAN JOURNALIST DEBUTS TWO SPORTS E-BOOKS

How To Run And Enjoy The Marathon, a practical guide to the 26.2-mile journey, and The Tour Within The Tour de France, essays from the great cycling event, have been published by veteran long-distance runner and journalist James Raia.

How To Run And Enjoy The Marathon, a practical guide to the 26.2-mile journey, and The Tour Within The Tour de France, essays from the great cycling event, have been published by veteran long-distance runner and journalist James Raia.

A series of 15 self-help and service-oriented articles about running marathons, How To Run And Enjoy The Marathon examines myriad topics - the proper shoes to running etiquette, experts' training tips to race-day expectations.

The Tour Within The Tour de France features sports, travel and human-interest essays from the author's first six years of the covering cycling's most prestigious race. It's about fourt-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, the mountains, the people and the ambiance of the event. This July marks the 100th anniversary of the Tour de France.

For more information or to purchase How To Run And Enjoy The Marathon or The Tour With the Tour de France, visit the link:

http://www.byjamesraia.com/ebook.shtml

To sign-up for Raia's two free electronic endurance sports newsletters, visit the link: http://www.byjamesraia.com

To contact the author, e-mail him at RaiaRuns@aol.com

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