This text provides complete instruction on developing ideal running techniques for personal fitness and serious competition. Through easy-to-follow steps designed to gradually build their abilities, readers learn how to choose reliable shoes and running gear and create an effective training and running programme. Also, the authors share tips on ...
This text takes a comprehensive look at training for competitive long-distance racing, containing charts, schedules and checklists to guide the runner in organizing his or her training. Runners select a goal racing distance, then learn how to prepare for success at this chosen distance by using a mix of five workouts: long runs, tempo runs, VO2 ...
You're no idiot, of course. You follow all the latest energy-food trends, know the metric equivalent of a mile, and can even recite last year's New York City marathon winners. But when it comes to scheduling a running program, you feel like you have two left feet. Don't trash your track shoes just yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jogging and ...
Rodgers offers advice to runners of all ages and abilities in this long-range view of running. He covers getting started, the effects of aging, diet, clothing and shoes, training, racing strategies, running clubs, injury treatment and prevention, record keeping, and fitting running into a busy schedule. A special section with Joan Benoit Samuelson ...
Offering a complete history of the race - from the dirt-scratched starting line of the first marathon in 1897 to the electronic start of 1995's race, this text reports on the results from each year and provides an account that helps readers to relive the drama surrounding the people who shaped each race - how they trained, the problems they ...
Whether running a 5-K for the first time or training for a marathon, runners over 40 will gain valuable insight into successful training, running, and racing from Bill Rodgers and Priscilla Welch, two of the world's most fmaous masters. The ultimate guide for runners over 40. 6 photographs.
First run as the Boston Athletic Association Marathon in April, 1897, with only 18 runners, the most prestigious and oldest marathon in the world is chronicled, with its history unfolding through the eyes of runners and the people in towns and cities along the route. Full color.
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