By Michael Connelly
117 years Strong…and Counting!
This all-new variation, which follows the Boston Marathon into the twenty first century and during the tragedy of the 2013 race, is a colourful and relocating portrait of what it seems like to run the world’s oldest annual marathon, escorting the reader during the earlier, current, and vibrant way forward for the race.
26.2 Miles to Boston is a wealthy, brilliant, and encouraging heritage of the Boston Marathon and of the lads and girls of various skills whose struggles and triumphs have coloured this old occasion for over a century.
From suburban Hopkinton, Massachusetts, to the heart of metropolitan Boston, the writer takes readers in the course of the mile-by-mile points of interest, sounds, and traditions that make the race what it really is.
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The authors suggested that the experienced players were anticipating the movements of the players within the patterns and thus encoding the first presented image as a possible subsequent play state, rather than encoding the image in its original form. , 2013), using a more representative task that continued to support the notion that pattern perception is anticipatory in nature for expert performers (see Chapter 18 for more detail). Concluding remarks This chapter has provided a necessarily brief overview of more than 30 years of sport expertise research dedicated to understanding how sport experts in time-stressed interceptive sports or invasion sports utilize the perceptual information available to them to make anticipatory responses.