Badwater Book By Scott Ludwig Now International

A Few Degrees from Hell: White Hot Tales from the Badwater Ultramarathon features 25 runners telling of their adventures in running 135 miles non-stop from Death Valley to Mount Whitney, California.

The book by Scott Ludwig of Peachtree City, GA, has been published by Meyer & Meyer Sport (http://www.m-m-sports.com) and is being distributed nationally by Cardinal Publishers Group (http://www.cardinalpub.com).

Meyer & Meyer is an international publisher based in Aachen, Germany and is the biggest sports publisher in Europe. It has over 2,000 titles in English and German, written by some of the world’s acknowledged experts in their fields, including famed running writer Jeff Galloway.

Ludwig will have book signings on Saturday, June 29, from 3-5 p.m. at Books-A-Million in Peachtree City and on July 11 from 7-9 p.m. at Barnes and Noble at 2900 Peachtree Road in Atlanta. Ludwig will sign copies purchased at those stores.

Ludwig, 58, is president and co-founder of the Darkside Running Club (http://www.darksiderunningclub.com). He has one of the longest running streaks in the country, having run every day since Nov. 30, 1978. He ran his 200th marathon last December in Honolulu and his 50th ultra two years ago in South Africa (Comrades Marathon, about 54 miles across mountains).

The Badwater book was written in 2010 and originally self-published. Meyer & Meyer bought rights to the book and has published it for the national and international market.

The 36th annual Badwater race, recognized globally as “the world’s toughest foot race,” will be held July 15-17 and feature up to 100 of the world’s toughest athletes – runners, triathletes, adventure races, and mountaineers against one another and the elements. It is run in temperatures of up to 130 degrees and includes three mountain ranges.

Ludwig has published five books:
2007 – Running through My Mind: Confessions of an Every Day Runner.

2009 -- A Passion for Running: Portraits of the Everyday Runner. The book chronicles the amazing stories of 18 runners he has grown to know, respect and admire during my first three decades in he sport.

2010 -- A Few Degrees from Hell: The 2003 Badwater Ultramarathon.

2012 -- In It for the Long Run: A Decade with the Darkside Running Club is a history of the club founded in 2002 by Al Barker and myself. It was co-authored with the talented Vanessa Stroud of Birmingham, AL.

2013 – Distance Memories: Reflections of a Life on the Run. “If I had to categorize it, I would call it a memoir, as it is a compilation of the experience, wisdom and insight gained from running for almost 35 years and running more than 130,000 miles,” Ludwig said.