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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Track & field sports, athletics
From his childhood amidst the steel mills of South Yorkshire to
Olympic glory and beyond, Seb Coe's story is one of extraordinary
achievement. One of the greatest middle-distance runners of all
time, Seb earned four Olympic medals during a world-record breaking
career. THE WINNING MIND is Seb's account of the challenges, hard
graft, set-backs and victories that he experienced during his
career, retold with the passion and commitment that ultimately made
him such an inspirational sporting champion. As an athlete,
politican, business speaker and key figure in the delivery of the
2012 Olympic Games, Seb Coe has striven to achieve success in every
challenge he has faced. This is the story of one man's quest for
excellence and the power of the winning mind.
From elite marathoner and Olympic hopeful Becky Wade comes the
story of her year-long exploration of diverse global running
communities from England to Ethiopia-9 countries, 72 host families,
and over 3,500 miles of running-investigating unique cultural
approaches to the sport and revealing the secrets to the success of
runners all over the world. Fresh off a successful collegiate
running career-with multiple NCAA All-American honors and two
Olympic Trials qualifying marks to her name-Becky Wade was no
stranger to international competition. But after years spent safely
sticking to the training methods she knew, Becky was curious about
how her counterparts in other countries approached the sport to
which she'd dedicated over half of her life. So in 2012, as a
recipient of the Watson Fellowship, she packed four pairs of
running shoes, cleared her schedule for the year, and took off on a
journey to infiltrate diverse running communities around the world.
What she encountered far exceeded her expectations and changed her
outlook into the sport she loved. Over the next twelve
months-visiting 9 countries with unique and storied running
histories, logging over 3,500 miles running over trails, tracks,
sidewalks, and dirt roads-Becky explored the varied approaches of
runners across the globe. Whether riding shotgun around the streets
of London with Olympic champion sprinter Usain Bolt, climbing for
an hour at daybreak to the top of Ethiopia's Mount Entoto just to
start her daily run, or getting lost jogging through the bustling
streets of Tokyo, Becky's unexpected adventures, keen insights, and
landscape descriptions take the reader into the heartbeat of
distance running around the world. Upon her return to the United
States, she incorporated elements of the training styles she'd
sampled into her own program, and her competitive career
skyrocketed. When she made her marathon debut in 2013, winning the
race in a blazing 2:30, she became the third-fastest woman
marathoner under the age of 25 in U.S. history, qualifying for the
2016 Olympic Trials and landing a professional sponsorship from
Asics. From the feel-based approach to running that she learned
from the Kenyans, to the grueling uphill workouts she adopted from
the Swiss, to the injury-recovery methods she learned from the
Japanese, Becky shares the secrets to success from runners and
coaches around the world. The story of one athlete's fascinating
journey, Run the World is also a call to change the way we approach
the world's most natural and inclusive sport.
Run for the Love of Life is a must-read for anyone who desires to escape the day-to-day sameness of our new pandemic-informed lives, or who seeks to feel alive, inspired, and filled with a renewed enthusiasm for the year ahead.
It recounts the extraordinary journey of South African Erica Terblanche, an ordinary woman who manages to not only achieve – but excel – on the world stage of extreme distance-running in some of the most inhospitable and majestic landscapes across the planet. Raw, honest and infinitely human, this part-memoir, part-travel novel thunders through one exotic race location after the other, as the runners battle the elements and each other across the vastness of the Sahara, Atacama and Namib Deserts, the great Grand Canyon, Turkish Cappadocia and the Kalahari Desert, to name only a few.
But more than just a book on racing, what makes this novel infinitely compelling and rewarding is that in the echoes of Erica’s story, one begins to sense the pulse of one’s own potential and long-forgotten dreams. While you may laugh, cry, and forget to take a breath at times, it is inevitable that Run will spur you on to find your own bliss, that which is buried deep within your soul and body.
At its heart, Run for the love of life is a story about love, forgiveness, perseverance and growth, and about the important things in life that ultimately makes us happy. Told with wit, humour and vulnerability, it is a book that will stay with the reader long after the final page is turned.
Whether you're an extreme exercise enthusiast or you're just
looking to shed a few pounds, this is the last book on training,
endurance, health, and life you will ever need. In this book you
will learn: The 2 best ways to build fitness fast without
destroying your body; Underground training tactics for maximising
workout efficiency; the best biohacks for enhancing mental
performance and entering the zone; how to know with laserlike
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quickly from workouts, injuries, and overtraining; the 25 most
important blood and saliva biomarkers and how to test them; 5
essential elements of training that most athletes neglect; 7
stress-fighting weapons to make your mind-body connection
bulletproof; proven systems to enhance sleep, eliminate insomnia,
and conquer jet lag; 40 high-calorie, nutrient-dense meals that
won't destroy your metabolism; Easy tools for customising your
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