I don't often read sports stories but this one was alright. Jim Wellington goes to college and gets into athletics - poor bastard - and he's easy to sympathise with because he's just a decent person, even if he does enjoy spending his free time running in circles. It's very much a coming of age story, but while I enjoyed the sports stuff (which was surprising!) and his friendship with the footballer McGuire, I was less interested in the rest of the social life of the school, including pranks and student mobs doing dickhead things and behaving like entitled cretins. 

There's nothing surprising here; the story hits pretty much every beat you would expect from something like this, but Wellington and McGuire are likeable enough that it doesn't really matter.