Best Runs

Henderson, Joe

Burfoot, Amby

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Human Kinetics

We've turned the top book on running into a handy Running Press Miniature Edition™! With tips from marathon runners and well know Olympians, this pocket-size reference provides easy-to-follow tips on getting started, picking the right shoes, how to train, where to train, how to prevent and cure common runners' ailments, and much more.

Runner's World Complete Book Of Running (Runner's World Complete Books)

Exercise & Fitness

Running Press

Avid runners often define their best runs in terms of breaking records and conquering distances, but they intuitively know that this only begins to describe their experiences. Through more than 40 years of training and competing, Joe Henderson has gained an understanding of what really defines the best running experiences and has developed techniques to achieve them. 
Henderson-America's premier running writer-has produced perhaps his finest work in Best Runs. He shares his experiences and expertise, offering advice on how you can enhance your running and reap rewards beyond improved running times and race results. 
Best Runs contains more than 100 essays that will inform, inspire, and amuse all readers, from fitness runners to hardcore competitors. Each of the book's 25 chapters serves as a valuable lesson in running. You'll find entertaining tales and proven advice on how to
- reduce the time pressures associated with training and racing; - decrease down-time by listening to your heart and early warning signals; - follow an optimal running diet; - reduce your anxiety before races; - improve long distance running techniques; - enjoy running into your later years; and - much, much more. Running is about much more than going farther and faster. It's about having your best possible experience every time out. Best Runs provides inspiration, insights, and training tips to ensure that you reach your fullest potential. Read it and have your best run yet!

Everything you need to know to begin running for pleasure, for health - for life! From the first steps you take (and the shoes you take them in) to building a sound training plan, boosting your endurance and learning to run with an ease and speed you could never have imagined possible, The Runner's World[registered] Complete Guide to Beginning Running covers every aspect of the sport. There is guidance on nutrition, injury prevention and cross training; there are motivating real-life stories (including that of Oprah); and, for those who need a little extra help, specially designed 2-month and 6-month step-by-step plans.

The 'Runner's World' Complete Book of Running for Beginners

Sports & Outdoors

Rodale UK

In RUN FOREVER, Boston Marathon winner and former Runner's World editor-in-chief Amby Burfoot shares practical advice and wisdom on how to run with greater joy and health for an entire lifetime. Everyone learns how to run at an early age. It's naturally wired into your body. Yet in recent years, running has become complicated by trendy gadgets and doctrine. With a Boston Marathon win and over 100,000 miles run on his resume, Amby Burfoot steers the sport back to its simple roots in RUN FOREVER. From a warm and welcoming perspective, Burfoot provides clear, actionable guidance to runners of every age and ability level. Whether you are a beginner runner or experienced marathoner, RUN FOREVER will show you how to motivate yourself, avoid injuries, increase speed and endurance, and reach your goals. Best of all, you'll enjoy optimal health throughout your life.

Run Forever: Your Complete Guide to Healthy Lifetime Running

Center Street

A book of practical guidance and simple wisdom about running... and about life. From a key figure in the running world comes a unique little compendium of information and anecdotes about a life in motion. Champion marathoner Amby Burfoot has created a distinctive resource to help runners run better, faster, and farther. More than this, his succinct and sure-footed text will help runners rediscover and deepen their own joy in the sport. This is a celebration of running. Training, racing, nutrition, injury prevention, issues for women, weather, mental preparation, and the marathon are discussed in detail with plenty of solid information. Each chapter ends with a list of relevant principles of running. Interwoven among the facts and fundamentals are enlightening personal notes from a learned lifelong runner. The Principles of Running is much more than a simple manual. It is a book that you will not be able to put down, although you are not sure whether you are reading it for the running tips or the life lessons. It is a book that you will keep on your nightstand, tuck in your briefcase, and give to your friends. It is a book that is certain to help you hit your stride--whether your running shoes are off or on.

The Principles of Running

Rodale Books

The sport of running is ever changing, be it the shoes we wear or the goals we set, the training methods we use or the role models we emulate. But there is one constant: For 30 years, Runner's World magazine has been recognized worldwide as the leading authority on running. Now, the collective wisdom of some of the most savvy running writers and editors can be found in one book. Whether you are a beginner or veteran runner, here is advice-- both timeless and cutting edge-- guaranteed to maximize your performance and pleasure. In-depth coverage of training and racing, including: * A surefire plan for beginners to get "hooked" on running * 15 surprising foods to boost your running performance * A program to double your endurance * Nearly 20 running ailments and how to self-treat them * A proven method to achieve a breakthrough * Top 25 training advances over the past 30 years * Tips from triathletes to maximize your training efficiency * 11 rules to run a great marathon * A woman's encyclopedia of running * The big-five running injuries and how to prevent them * How to incorporate speedwork into your training * How to think like a champion * How to taper your eating, and your training, before a race Valuable advice from world-class runners, coaches, and doctors: * Joan Samuelson, 1984 Olympic Marathon gold medalist * Mark Allen, six-time Hawaii Ironman triathlon champion * Jeff Galloway, U.S. Olympian and best-selling author * Joe Ellis, D.P.M., author of Running Injury-Free * Bob Kempainen, 1992 U.S. Olympic Marathoner * Doug Kurtis, who has run 60 marathons under 2:20

Runner's World Complete Book of Running: Everything You Need to Know to Run for Fun, Fitness and Competition

Individual Sports

"As runners, we all go through many transitions-- transitions that closely mimic the larger changes we experience in a lifetime. First, we try to run faster. Then we try to run harder. Then we learn to accept ourselves and our limitations, and at last, we can appreciate the true joy and meaning of running." As its opening pages reveal, The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life is not merely about running. It is about living-- to your fullest potential. Amby Burfoot, one of running's wisest voices, here presents 15 essential life lessons about passion, courage, materialism, failure, regeneration, and more, all learned from experience during more than 35 years of running. In this book, Amby discusses the essential traits of a runner-- traits that also are essential for all people wishing to reach their long-term goals. He discusses the writings, music, and quotes that have inspired him throughout his long career. Most important, he explains that winners are not those who cross the finish line first, but rather those who are able to discover more about themselves with every step. The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life is one in a series of Daybreak books that provide life lessons and spiritual perspectives from the vantage point of different occupations and passions.

The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart

Daybreak Books

The Principles of Running: Practical Lessons from My First 100,000 Miles

Runner's World Complete Book of Beginning Running by Amby Burfoot is the newest addition to the heralded Runner's World series focuses exclusively on the concerns of the tens of thousands of new runners who take up the sport every year. Recognizing that newcomers to a sport need all the help they can get, Runner's World now devotes an entire book to guiding the beginning runner through those challenging first days, weeks, and months. Peppered throughout with motivating tips and advice from those who have been there, this much-needed volume presents a can't-fail program that is sure to help new runners feel and look better and have more energy and less stress. Inside you'll find: o Information on nutrition and how to adjust your diet to fit your new running lifestyle o Training advice, including how to use cross-training, stretching, and strength exercises to keep enthusiasm up, weight down, and fitness at an optimum level o A special section for women runners Written by the executive editor of Runner's World magazine and covering every problem the new runner may encounter-from choosing the right shoes to preventing injury to preparing for a race-this authoritative volume provides all the information and inspiration any novice requires to turn running into a healthy, lifetime pursuit.

Runner's World Complete Book of Beginning Running

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Best Runs

Runner's World Complete Book Of Running (Runner's World Complete Books)

Best Runs

The 'Runner's World' Complete Book of Running for Beginners

Run Forever: Your Complete Guide to Healthy Lifetime Running

The Principles of Running

Runner's World Complete Book of Running: Everything You Need to Know to Run for Fun, Fitness and Competition

The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart

The Principles of Running: Practical Lessons from My First 100,000 Miles

Runner's World Complete Book of Beginning Running