Presents information on avoiding the pitfalls of running, and how to use running for its best fitness effects, describing how runners get injured, how to treat injuries, and how to prevent injury.
Fifteen-year-old Lee Hunter finds both his badly needed part-time job and his chances to become number one school miler threatened by the unscrupulous actions of a jealous teammate.
Stan the dog has to go along when his owner takes up jogging so the clever canine spends his exercise time planning to get back to his favorite pastimes of eating potato chips, chocolate, and meaty Dogzo.
When Annie Redfeather falls and loses a big school race, Aristotle the prairie dog reads her the story of Theseus slaying the Minotaur to illustrate courage.