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Are you a triathlete, runner, cyclist, swimmer, cross-country
skier, or other athlete seeking greater endurance? The Endurance
Handbook teaches athletes how to stay healthy, achieve optimal
athletic potential, and be injury-free for many productive years.
Dr. Philip Maffetone's approach to endurance offers a truly
"individualized" outlook and unique system that he has refined over
three decades of training and treating athletes, ranging from world
champions to weekend warriors. Maffetone's training and racing
philosophy emphasizes building a strong aerobic base for increased
fat burning, weight loss, sustained energy, and a healthy immune
system. Good nutrition and stress reduction are also key to this
common-sense, big-picture approach. Dr. Maffetone also dispels many
of the commonly held myths that linger in participatory sports and
which adversely impact performance and explains the "truths" about
endurance, such as: The need to train slower to race faster will
enable your aerobic system to improve endurance Why expensive
running shoes can actually cause foot and leg injuries The fact
that refined carbohydrates actually reduce endurance energy and
disrupt hormone balance How overtraining can be avoided in its
earliest stages And much more! If you are looking to increase your
endurance and maximize your athletic potential, The Endurance
Handbook is your one-stop guide to training and racing effectively.
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work might not otherwise find a home.
From Hopkinton to Boylston Street, the beloved 26.2 miles of the
Boston Marathon mark historic moments and memories dating back to
1897. Town by town and step by step, follow author, journalist, and
runner Paul C. Clerici as he goes deeper into each town and city
along the route with firsthand descriptions of the course from the
uphill climbs to the spirited sprints. Insightful anecdotes, from
the naming of Heartbreak Hill to the incorporation of women
runners, reveal meaningful racing heritage along the route. This
comprehensive and unique journey also explores the stories behind
notable landmarks, statues, and mile markers throughout the course.
Woven into the course history is expert advice on how to run each
leg of the race from renowned running coach Bill Squires. Whether
you're a runner, spectator, or fan, "Boston Marathon History by the
Mile" has it all.
The 40 routes in this guidebook offer some of the best trail
running, fell running and sky running routes in the Lake District
National Park, one of the world's great mountain running regions.
Each route has been carefully graded to indicate terrain and
difficulty so that the runner can select a route that suits their
ability or aspirations for the day. Routes range from 5 miles to 21
miles, and include classics such as the Helvellyn skyline, Langdale
Horseshoe, Borrowdale and Scafell Pike direct. Detailed route
descriptions and OS map extracts accompany each route, along with
key facts, including distance, ascent, descent, timings, maps,
transport and parking. There is a useful introduction explaining
the history of trail and fell running in the Lake District, along
with advice about the best bases for a trail running holiday,
equipment and adapting to running off road. There is a rich history
of mountain running in the UK, and for many the Lake District is
the spiritual home of fell running. Whether you want to follow the
course of some of the classic fell races, or explore some of the
quieter corners of the national park, the aim of this book is to
inspire you to enjoy this thrilling sport in one of its greatest
playgrounds.
In It for the Long Run is ultrarunner Damian Hall's story of
running a first marathon aged thirty-six, dressed as a toilet, and
representing Great Britain four years later. His midlife-crisis
running problem escalated to 100-mile ultramarathons and
record-breaking bimbles, culminating in his 261-mile Pennine Way
run in July 2020. In 1989, Mike Hartley set a record/Fastest Known
Time (FKT) for the Pennine Way, running Britain's oldest National
Trail in two days and seventeen hours, without stopping for sleep.
Hartley's record stood for thirty-one years, until two attempts
were made on it in two weeks in the summer of 2020. First, American
John Kelly broke Hartley's record by thirty-four minutes. Then Hall
knocked another three hours off Kelly's time. Hall used his
record-bothering run to highlight concerns for our climate and
ecological emergency: his attempt was carbon negative, he created
no plastic waste, and he and his pacing runners collected litter as
they went, while also raising money for Greenpeace. A vegan, Hall
used no animal products on his attempt. Scrawled on his arm in
permanent marker was 'F F F', standing for Family, Friends, Future.
Packed with dry wit and humour, In It for the Long Run tells of
Hall's nine-year preparation for his attempt, and of the run
itself. He also gives us an autobiographical insight into the
deranged, custard-splattered, hedgehog-dodging world of
ultramarathon running and record attempts.
Going Down Slow, The Times of an Old Man Who Runs. The word "runs"
appears in the subtitle of this memoir, and the act of running
spans the breadth of it. So it is perhaps fair if some call this a
running book. Running, however, is not the main topic. Adventure
is. Author Dallas Smith is drawn to the adventure his hobby brings.
Running is indeed a constant presence in the stories, but mostly as
a current that sweeps him along, the reason he encounters the
places he describes, the people he meets, and the adventure he
finds. Running connects him to everything and everyone. Events and
episodes vary widely, as do the locales where they play out,
stretching from the urbane glamor of Stockholm, Sweden to Spain's
El Camino de Santiago to the tussocks of the Arctic tundra to a
flood-scoured gorge in Tennessee-and places in between. A run
through Central Park suddenly shifts and takes the reader on a
fishing trip where three adolescent boys of a distant time and
place pulled sagging carp out of a muddy swamp and lugged their
haul home. Smith finds adventures and brings them home. This
sprawling story delights and surprises readers. Smith brings
observation, insight, and wit. His narrative flows like the smooth
stride of a fast runner and makes the reader feel as if he, too,
were there experiencing the color and danger of these episodic
adventures.
The Looniness of the Long Distance Runner is one comparatively
unfit 39-year old Londoner's humorous account of his attempt to run
the New York marathon from scratch. (He chose the pre-Thanksgiving
race in the Big Apple to avoid adding to his ordeal by having to
train during the British winter.) Inspired by the charity running
of friends, Russell Taylor set himself the challenge of doing what
Pheidippides first had done. But to spare himself the post-event
trauma of trying to extract money from the reluctant grasp of his
sponsors, he decided to write a book about his experiences and
donate the royalties to charity instead. This book follows our
intrepid road-runner from the treadmills of a north London
gymnasium via his first tentative fun run to the mean streets of
the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan. Along the way, we encounter
indescribably tasteless isotonic drinks, sweaty singlets, sports
injuries, personal bests, split times, anxious queuing for the
public toilets and an unfeasibly large quantity of bananas. We also
discover what lurks within the breast of the endurance athlete: an
unreasonable hatred of his fellow runner (except the nubile females
of the species), a contempt for the idiocy of stadium announcers
and a strange fear of spectators who line the route inanely
shouting "Keep Going!" by way of encouragement. The narrative is
interspersed by jocular reviews of films about running - not least
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - and a tongue-in-cheek
description of the history of the marathon from its Ancient Greek
origins to its modern-day revival as an Olympic event. Written with
considerable panache and a self-deprecating sense of humour, this
illuminating tale of obsessive and foolhardy sporting endeavour
will make entertaining reading for (in descending order of athletic
accomplishment) manic ultra-marathon runners, dedicated pavement
pounders, occasional joggers and the simply curious alike.
Harold Watkins gets a wake-up call after his annual physical. He
is out of shape, inactive and almost needs to go shopping for a
coffin. The grim reaper is out looking for him. He could try and
hide.
Instead, he decides that drastic changes are needed in his life
and so he enlists the help of two friends and sets out on a long
journey to fitness through the unlikely (for him) sport of running.
He soon discovers that there is a lot more to life than sitting in
front of a television set and chomping down on burgers and
fries.
Throughout the journey Harold experiences every emotion possible
from the pain and low esteem of the early beginnings, to the sheer
joy and satisfaction of achieving long term goals he had not
thought previously possible.
Harold's helpers turn out to be his best friends as well as two
very good coaches and have many hilarious runs and training
incidents on the way. Harold pushes the word friendship to the
limit. At the end of the journey he emerges a completely
transformed and totally different person with a whole new outlook
on life.
Anyone who runs, or is thinking of taking up running, needs to
read this book and use Harold's motivation and perseverance to help
with their own personal journeys. If Harold can do it, so can
you.
Despu s del diagn stico m dico desalentador y saber que poco a poco
perder a la movilidad en todo mi cuerpo, aceptar y asumir la
dolorosa enfermedad y comprender el gran valor que tiene el dar un
paso, s lo un paso a la vez y decidir que mientras pudiera y Dios
me lo permitiera me mantendr a en movimiento corriendo, trotando o
caminando, comienza una aventura en kil metros, que a n a contra
diagn stico me ha ayudado a mejorar por mucho mi estado de salud,
encontrando a lo largo de este reto, lecciones de vida que deseo
compartir contigo en estas p ginas, con el nico fin que t, amigo
lector, encuentres una esperanza, una motivaci n o una puerta
abierta hacia el poder del movimiento, la convicci n, el esfuerzo,
la buena actitud ante las circunstancias y de fe. Tambi n con el
fin de que esto te lleve a lograr tu propio prop sito, a disfrutar
y hacer de cada momento de tu vida, el paso peque ito que te llevar
a tu propio gran marat n.
In an era far removed from the African American celebrity athletes
of today, Olympic great Jesse Owens achieved fame by running faster
and jumping farther than anyone in the world. Author Jacqueline
Edmondson explores Owens' struggles and hard-earned
accomplishments, as well as how he paved the way for future
generations of athletes, including color-line shatterer Jackie
Robinson. It is difficult to imagine a time when African Americans
were not part of professional sports in the United States. So many
admired and beloved African-American athletes are national heroes
today: Michael Jordan, Venus and Serena Williams, Tiger Woods,
Florence Griffin-Joyner, Shaquille O'Neal, Muhammad Ali, to name a
few. No such celebrity athletes appeared on magazine covers when
Jesse Owens was a boy in the 1920s, no African American stars for
him to hope to emulate. As the first American in track and field to
win four gold medals in a single Olympic Games, Owens' athletic
accomplishments were achieved despite seemingly insurmountable
odds. This insightful biography tells the life story of a boy who
grew up in poverty in the Deep South, won Olympic gold in Hitler's
Germany by running faster and jumping farther than anyone in the
world, and achieved fame and sometimes fortune in the midst of the
Great Depression and a nation deeply divided by race. Yet while
Owens broke world records in track and gained attention from the
general public, few athletes could understand his experiences,
including the overt racial discrimination he faced-even fewer who
understood the complexities his fame brought. Author Jacqueline
Edmondson explores Owens' struggles and hard-earned
accomplishments, as well as how he paved the way for future
generations of athletes, including color line shatterer, Jackie
Robinson. A timeline, photos, and extensive bibliography of print
and electronic sources supplement this biography of one of the
greatest Olympic athletes in American history.
Guidebook to 40 great trail and fell runs in the Yorkshire Dales
National Park. Ranging from 5 to 24 miles, the graded runs start
from bases such as Hawes, Settle, Ingleton, Dent, Sedbergh, Malham
and Grassington and take in the region's diverse delights, from
castles and waterfalls to iconic mountains such as Whernside,
Ingleborough and Pen-Y-Ghent. For those seeking a longer challenge,
the Pendragon Castle to Skipton Castle Ultra is also described. In
addition to clear route description, mapping and gradient profiles,
the guide also provides background information on local races and
running clubs, the history of running in the region, as well as
practical information on safety, equipment, navigation, maps,
transport and accommodation. Sandwiched between the Lake District
and the Pennines, the Yorkshire Dales showcases some of the finest
running terrain in the British Isles. Offering a delightful mix of
medium sized peaks and broad open moorland, it is a must-visit
destination for those seeking off-road runs with enchanting views.
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