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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Track & field sports, athletics
It's inevitable that all runners who have been pounding the
pavement for a very long time will eventually slow down. Having run
every day since November 30, 1978, Scott Ludwig certainly falls
into this category. Considering that he can no longer run a single
mile in the pace he ran 26 of them when he set his first marathon
best many years ago, Ludwig finds he is ready to accept the reality
of slowing down with age. Now that he has entered the ranks of the
"grizzled veterans," he seeks to offer runners all the wisdom and
insight he gained from his many years-and miles-on the roads and
trails. A "do as I say, not as I do" runner, Ludwig has compiled
his advice for runners who find they may not run quite as fast as
they used to in Running Out of Gas, a humorous take on aging
gracefully. Relating his own personal running anecdotes, Ludwig
prepares runners for what's to come, while sharing a few laughs
along the way. Runners of all ages and mileage will enjoy Scott
Ludwig's Running Out of Gas.
In 490 BCE Pheidippides ran for 36 hours straight from Athens to
Sparta to seek help in defending Athens from a Persian invasion. He
was hailed as a hero and his run stands enduringly as one of
greatest physical accomplishments in history. Dean Karnazes honours
this achievement and his own Greek heritage by attempting this
ancient journey in modern times. His account of running the
gruelling Spartathlon, fuelled only by the figs, olives and meats
available to Pheidippides, will captivate even the most sedentary
readers.
Every year, roughly 2 million people participate in marathons and
half marathons in the United States, and, no matter what level they
are, every one of these runners has likely hit"The Wall," running
out of muscle fuel in the final miles and slowing down
precipitously. This setback and other common running
disappointments are nutritional (or metabolic) in nature. In The
New Rules , renowned fitness journalist and training coach Matt
Fitzgerald cuts through the myths,distilling the most up-to-date
science to help runners overcome the universally experienced
nutritional barriers that prevent success in the marathon and half
marathon.From basic tenets of training to nutrition guidelines, The
New Rules is the first resource for runners to fully integrate
nutrition with training for a complete and systematic preraceplan.
Fitzgerald's powerful and easy-to-use tools will enable runners of
all levels to attain their ideal racing weight, calculate their
precise daily energy needs, and formulate a custom nutrition plan.
Dom Harvey is a hugely popular radio DJ. He's known for his funny
gags, and has been described as a shock-jock. So it might come as a
surprise to find out that Dom is also seriously into running -
marathon running. In fact, he loves it. This book is a love story
about running, and about marathons especially. What got Dom into
marathons? How did running save his life? And why, despite being an
old fart, is he now trying to run even faster than ever before? Dom
is just a regular guy who drank too much alcohol and ate too much
shitty food, then fell in love with running and turned his life
around (and became a bit of a running nerd along the way).
On March 31, 1929, seventy-seven men began an epic 3,554-mile
footrace across America that pushed their bodies to the breaking
point. Nicknamed the ""Bunion Derby"" by the press, this was the
second and last of two trans-America footraces held in the late
1920s. The men averaged forty-six gut-busting miles a day during
seventy-eight days of nonstop racing that took them from New York
City to Los Angeles. Among this group, two brilliant runners,
Johnny Salo of Passaic, New Jersey, and Pete Gavuzzi of England,
emerged to battle for the $25,000 first prize along the mostly
unpaved roads of 1929 America, with each man pushing the other to
go faster as the lead switched back and forth between them. To pay
the prize money, race director Charley Pyle cobbled together a
traveling vaudeville company, complete with dancing debutantes, an
all-girl band wearing pilot outfits, and blackface comedians, all
housed under the massive show tent that Pyle hoped would pack in
audiences. Kastner’s engrossing account, often told from the
perspective of the participants, evokes the remarkable physical
challenge the runners experienced and clearly bolsters the argument
that the last Bunion Derby was the greatest long-distance footrace
of all time.
Featured in the book Born to Run, running coach Eric Orton offers a
guide for every runner...
Natural running is more than barefoot running. It's about the joy
of running that we were all born with and can reawaken. With a
program focused on proper form, strength development, and
cardiovascular training, Orton will help beginners, competitors,
and enduring veterans reach the cool impossible--the belief that
any achievement, athletic or otherwise, is within our reach. Inside
you'll find:
* Foot strength exercises for runners to catapult performance,
combat injuries, and transform technique
* A total-body-strength program designed for runners
* Step-by-step run-form coaching for performance and lifelong
healthy running
* A training program for building endurance, strength, and
speed
* No-nonsense nutrition for runners
* Visualization and mind-training tactics to run and live the Cool
Impossible
* And much more...
ATHLETICISM IS AWARENESS--awareness of form and technique,
awareness of our effort level, and, most important, awareness of
what we think. And with that awareness comes the endless potential
for mastery and achievement beyond anything you thought possible.
INCLUDES PHOTOS
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