The Long Run: Steve Prefontaine, Frank Shorter, Joan Benoit, Grete Waitz, and the Decade That Made the Marathon Cool: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Long Run: Steve Prefontaine, Frank Shorter, Joan Benoit, Grete Waitz, and the Decade That Made the Marathon Cool runs 9.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Matt Godfrey (about 6.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 20 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 9.6 hours, it runs longer than 52% of the 7,179 World audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Matt Godfrey
Matt Godfrey narrates 256 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,167 hours in all.
About as long, on the World shelf
1,111 World audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Long Run: Steve Prefontaine, Frank Shorter, Joan Benoit, Grete Waitz, and the Decade That Made the Marathon Cool is an audiobook by Martin Dugard: a 9.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Matt Godfrey, released April 14, 2026, on the World and Sports shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Matt Godfrey
- Released
- April 14, 2026
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- World, Sports, Fitness, Diet & Nutrition
- ISBN
- 9798217285556
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Long Run: Steve Prefontaine, Frank Shorter, Joan Benoit, Grete Waitz, and the Decade That Made the Marathon Cool as an audiobook?
The Long Run: Steve Prefontaine, Frank Shorter, Joan Benoit, Grete Waitz, and the Decade That Made the Marathon Cool runs 9.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.4 hours.
Is The Long Run: Steve Prefontaine, Frank Shorter, Joan Benoit, Grete Waitz, and the Decade That Made the Marathon Cool free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Long Run: Steve Prefontaine, Frank Shorter, Joan Benoit, Grete Waitz, and the Decade That Made the Marathon Cool?
The Long Run: Steve Prefontaine, Frank Shorter, Joan Benoit, Grete Waitz, and the Decade That Made the Marathon Cool is narrated by Matt Godfrey.