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Amazing Racers - The Story of America's Greatest Running Team and its Revolutionary Coach (Paperback)
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Amazing Racers - The Story of America's Greatest Running Team and its Revolutionary Coach (Paperback)
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The inspiring, untold story about a group of remarkable athletes
and their groundbreaking coach who live and train in startling
ways-and are redefining running excellence in the United States.
What would one call taking teens with no evident running talent and
challenging them with boundless hill training combined with mantras
from rock 'n' roll, techniques from Kenya, philosophy from
Australia, and turning them into champions? Is it revolutionary? Or
a risky rebellion against running-and teenage-norms? Coach Bill
Aris has heard both, but one thing is indisputable. Everything Aris
does with his runners-male and female alike-is new and
extraordinary, and he has created a new American running dynasty.
The cross-country runners of Fayetteville-Manlius, or F-M, in
upstate New York have dominated high school running for 15 years,
sweeping boys' and girls' titles at the Nike Cross Nationals
championships (NXN) in 2014 in an unprecedented achievement. The
girls' team, empowered by Aris' unique, unwavering brand of gender
equity, has won 11 of the last 13 NXN titles, some by margins of
over 100 points. The boys' team has the best cumulative national
record of NXN podium performances. F-M domination has shocked the
sport for its defiance of accepted running principles and
limitations. One year at NXN, the F-M girls defeated the all-star
field of top teams by an average of 59 seconds per girl in the 5k
race. Another year, the girls ran faster than their teenage Kenyan
counterparts, who competed in the Portland, Oregon event as an
international showcase. Across the country, coaches awed by F-M and
unaware of the team's methods and discoveries, whispered, "How do
they do it?" From adopting long-forgotten "Stotan" creeds-combining
the rigors of a Spartan and stoic lifestyle-to delving into teenage
developmental psychology and gender-blindness in training, Amazing
Racers is a must read for millions of runners and the millions more
who strive for better performance.
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