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Free Running: The Urban Landscape is Your Playground
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Paul Tergat: Running to the Limit; His Life and His Training Secrets With Many Tips For Runners
: :34-year-old Kenyan Paul Tergat has secured his place in the history books with his Marathon world record in Berlin at the end of September 2003. Today he is considered as one of the best runners of all time. At Olympic Games he won two silver medals, both times behind his friend and rival Haile Gebrselassie. This book will illustrate Tergat's way from an unknown runner in a tiny village in Kenya to the Marathon world record holder and Dollar-millionaire. It will show the triumphs and disappointments that formed him as a human ...
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Amped: A Soldier's Race for Gold in the Shadow of War
: :'When above-the-knee amputeeswalk, we generate seven to nine times the force of our body weight right into the point where the prosthesis meets our residual leg. For me, that's almost 1,500 pounds slamming into that socket.' For any amputee, learning to walk with a prosthetic leg is a painful, grueling ordeal. Soon after army medic Kortney Clemons, who lost his right leg to a roadside bomb in Baghdad, began the process, he had more than walking in mind. He wanted to run, and run fast. Barely three years after the awful attack ...
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Running 101
: :Whether you’re lacing up your running shoes for the first time, coming back after an injury, or training to run a longer distance than ever before, you need the fundamentals in Running 101 before you can reach full stride. Renowned running writer Joe Henderson turns more than 40 years of running wisdom into 101 practical lessons that provide training and racing insight that every runner can learn from. In 15 informative and entertaining chapters, Henderson provides advice on choosing the appropriate running gear, eating right, and creating training programs for fitness or ...
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How Running Changed My Life: True Stories of the Power of Running
from: Breakaway Books
: :Every runner knows this, and marvels at it, and finds it hard to wholly describe: Running will change your life. These four dozen essays capture the power of running to change and shape our existence, to elevate us, to inspire and strengthen us in all our pursuits. They were selected for the fine quality of their writing, the emotional strength of the stories, and for their narrative drama. Collectively they are motivational, inspirational, and instructive, thus making a fascinating book for dewy beginners and grizzled veterans alike.In this book are personal tales ...
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10K & 5K Running, Training & Racing: The Running Pyramid
: :A five step program for successful racing at 10 and 5 kilometers...the two most popular race distances. Run up the training pyramid with these five steps. One. Build mileage and aerobic base while maintaining legspeed with fartlek running. Two. Run hills and other resistance training and use strength training to build your running muscles. Three. Turn this strength into speed endurance with anaerobic threshold running at 15K race pace. Four. Further improve running efficiency and your VO2 max by running intervals at 2 mile to 5K race pace. Five. Race Peaking. Resting ...
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How to Train For and Run Your Best Marathon: Valuable Coaching From a National Class Marathoner on Getting Up For and Finishing
: :Outlines a marathon training program for novice and expert runners, discussing workout schedules, cross-training, nutrition, mental preparation, and such pitfalls as injuries and overtrainingg.
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Beginner's Guide to Long Distance Running
: :This guide helps runners at all levels, from absolute beginners to those training for marathon racing. The training plan is divided to match each runner's grade of fitness. Readers assess themselves by answering fitness questionnaires that guide them to the appropriate level of training. At the end of each training grade, another self-assessment questionnaire helps runners decide whether to move to a higher level or remain where they are. A ten-week program begins with alternating two-minute runs and walks, and gradually progresses to sustained runs of 30 minutes. Runners are advised to ...
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Injury-Free Running (Runner's World Best)
: :When runners want expert advice, they turn to Runner’s World, the magazine that helped bring running culture into the mainstream—and has continued to dispense cutting-edge wisdom as running’s popularity has soared. Now, runners can have all that expert wisdom at their fingertips with the Runner’s World Best series. Each book in this series focuses on a particular aspect of running—from getting started to cross-training. Together, these authoritative, affordable, fully illustrated volumes form a accessible library that belongs in every runner’s home.]Runner’s World Best: Injury-Free Running assembles the most reliable information on running ...
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The Spirit of the Marathon: What to Expect in Your First Marathon, and How to Run Them for the Rest of Your Life
from: Breakaway Books
: :Personal stories of making the mara-thon a part of your life.This companion volume to First Marathons will inform, inspire, and educate any runner who wants to try the marathon, or wants to run several marathons a year. It picks up where that fast-selling book left off: it follows up with the 37 people profiled there, to see how their marathoning life has progressed since their first race. And it includes some 20 new first-marathon stories, as well as the stories of runners tackling their second or third marathon, and making the marathon ...
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