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41) Marathon Training: The Underground Plan To Run Your Fastest Marathon Ever : A Week by Week Guide Wit
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Marathon Training: The Underground Plan To Run Your Fastest Marathon Ever : A Week by Week Guide With Marathon Diet & Nutrition Plan reveals the methods used to turn runners into race winners. This book introduces method which will gradually build up the moderate-high mileage required for marathon success, spreading those miles more sensibly throughout the week. Running easy days mixed with precisely paced speed, strength, and tempo workouts, runners...
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Your 12-week Guide to Running offers an achievable step-by-step guide to help get an unfit person to a definable goal - running a 5km race in 12 weeks. The book outlines how to get started, what's needed and how to make that first step. Then using the week-by-week guide the reader works towards the target goal in very gradual steps with a weekly programme plus basic tips on nutrition, motivation, stretching and so on. The emphasis is on a very gradual...
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"An inspirational and intimate story well told."–Pete Pfitzinger, two-time Olympian"NAU and Flagstaff represent our sport at its best."–Meb Keflezighi, 2014 Boston Marathon winner In a remote Arizona mountain town more than half a century ago, a collegiate dynasty was born. Northern Arizona University learned about excellence in the altitude mecca of Flagstaff, a training ground for generations of legendary runners. But this school with no traditional...
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With the Galloway program, it is possible to be in the best shape of your life and still have energy to enjoy family and career. The highly successful training schedules include all the elements needed to qualify based on the Boston Marathon standards. Train using Galloway's successful Run Walk Run® Method to achieve maximum performance without risking injury. Galloway's magic mile gives a reality check on progress and sets realistic pacing goals...
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Six Hours: Running For My Life in the Grand Canyon tells the true story of one man's attempt to defy the odds and run the Grand Canyon as a 64-year-old cardiac patient with multiple stents in his "widow-maker" aorta. It's 17 treacherous miles to the bottom and back up to the South Rim. Ultimately, the high-risk run becomes more than an athletic endeavor, as it compels him to reflect on his life, his mortality, and his legacy.
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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...
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Best Trail Runs Portland, Oregon features forty of the best trail runs within an hour of the city-complete with color photos, maps, and detailed specs and trail descriptions, as well as GPS coordinates for all trailheads. Full of inspirational photos throughout, this book also includes practical maps featuring key information and noting must-see features and attractions along the way.
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Remind me not to get involved in conversations that don't concern me!Having never than done more than run to catch the last bus home as a teenager, I unwittingly found myself part of a six man team running a half marathon.What can a Half-Marathon Virgin do?Get training and get on with it!And…yes, I did it and got the medal to prove it.Read how…..
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Dr. Legere's Guide to Diagnosing, Treating And Preventing Running Pain helps runners keep running. In this book, you will learn what type of injury you possibly have, which treatment options that you can follow to reduce the pain and finally how you can help prevent an injury from developing in the first place. You can't fix the problem effectively without knowing what the actual problem is and with this book, you can finally take your health into...
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Beth Probst is a non-athlete. Or so she believes. After a few too-many mojitos at a dinner party with friends (including a few "real" runners) she decides to give running a try. So she signs up for a half-marathon. After all, everyone seems to be doing it. And she's Finnish-stubborn. She's never run, but… how hard can it be?
After a not-even-mediocre first attempt, one plus-size would-be runner discovers a truth about breaking into running from...
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This ebook provides an approach to the resolution of runners plantar fasciitis based on improved body awareness and the dynamic nature of fascia. FitOldDog's bout of runner's plantar fasciitis-induced heel and foot pain resulted from his tendency to lean forward whilst standing, compounded by a tense hamstring triggering calf muscle spasms and tightening of the related fascia. How would a boot or sock help with that? They didn't? Curing my sore heel...
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Join 300,000 other runners in using the bestselling training diary from the world's leading running magazine. Runner's World provides the outline, with a useful format and generous space for charting an entire year's running. You fill in the facts about each day's run, such as your pace, the distance you ran, your pulse rate, and weather conditions. You'll also find charts to record racing results, best times, and a year's running at a glance, plus...
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After a while, most runners reach a point where they want more. Running for Weight Loss: 5k To Half Marathon is the book for you, the follow up to Running For Weight Loss: Ultimate Beginners Guide. It doesn't matter if you started running to lose weight or get in shape or just to fill your down time, if you've been running for very long you may start feeling the urge to push yourself farther ... to see how good of a runner you can actually be. Maybe...
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Toute expérimentation suppose une nouveauté. Décider d'aller courir pour la première fois peut devenir la nouveauté la plus marquante de votre vie impliquant la première fois que vous portez des chaussures neuves ou alors une expérience que vous ne renouvellerez jamais. Ce qui peut faire la différence est l'hypothèse que le jour où vous vous êtes entraîné, ces chaussures vous ont gêné et ont attiré votre attention négativement à...
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A paradox lies at the heart of distance running: we are born to run, yet we still need to learn to run. In understanding this paradox, we not only understand running, we also understand ourselves.
The Runner's Paradox explores the depths of sensory, emotional, and physical experiences that distance running provides. Physiotherapist and former elite runner Mok Ying Rong offers an authentic perspective on the art of running. Learn how to identify...
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Here is the ultimate guide to 50 of the world's best marathons. If you're a long-distance runner looking for a new challenge, or a marathon novice with a spirit of adventure, this informative guide will help you choose the perfect course. The marathons included here embrace far-flung corners of the globe and every continent. They include fast and flat city runs, endurance events in hot and humid climates, scenic mountain challenges, the chance to...
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¿Cómo llega un joven albañil marroquí a ser uno de los corredores de montaña más fuertes y queridos del mundo? Sin ansiarlo, Zaid se encontró cruzando el estrecho de Gibraltar de forma ilegal junto con su primo. A partir de ese momento, deberá crearse una nueva vida en la Península, no sin vivir momentos muy duros y de amplias dudas, pero que le llevarán a pasar de ser un recolector de aceitunas ilegal a una de las figuras internacionales...
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One of the most remarkable—and controversial—sporting figures in British history, Chris Brasher piled unique achievement on unique achievement.
It was Chris Brasher who, along with Chris Chataway, paced Roger Bannister to break the 4-minute mile. Then he won his own Olympic Gold Medal in the steeplechase at the 1956 Olympics. Probably best known now for founding the London Marathon, Chris went on to become one of the founders of the modern sports...
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