Running Jogging category: 839 books
Smart Marathon Training
Run Your Best Without Running Yourself Ragged
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Old-school marathon training plans ask runners to crank out 70 to 100 miles a week. It's no wonder those who make it to the start line are running ragged. Smart Marathon Training maps out a healthier, more economical approach to training that emphasizes quality over quantity. This innovative program...
The Essential Sheehan
A Lifetime of Running Wisdom from the Legendary Dr. George Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Runners and readers whose connections to the sport date back to the 1970s surely remember Dr. George Sheehan, the New Jersey cardiologist and writer whose unique approach to the joy of exercise helped spark America's fitness boom. As a columnist for his local Red Bank Register and later as the medical...
Running Ultras
Tio The Edge Of Exhaustion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Running Ultras chronicles the author's journey (the training, the races and the people he met along the way) to complete his personal quest of running four major ultramarathons: The JFK 50-Mile Run, Badwater Ultramarathon, Western States Endurance Run and the Comrades Marathon. He tells the stories about the training, the races and the people he met along the way.
by Hal Higdon
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Hal Higdon’s name is synonymous with running. As contributing editor of Runner’s World and best-selling author, he has helped countless runners achieve their distance goals. Now, he’s created the definitive guide on today’s most popular distance, the 13.1-mile half marathon.
Hal Higdon’s...
So you want to run an Ultra
How to prepare for ultimate endurance
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
So you want to run an Ultramarathon. It all looks a very long way, doesn't it? It can't be good for you, it can't be fun and surely you have to be some kind of super-athlete to be able to run that far? This book shows that it is a very long way, that it can be good for you, and that you most certainly...
by David Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
Written by Physiotherapist and biomechanical analyst David J. Campbell, this book will outline information that top health professionals use with their clients, that you can use immediately regardless of your fitness level. This book will create confidence in your running ability and help you plan...
Running the Smoke
26 First-Hand Accounts of Tackling the London Marathon
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
It is the world's most iconic road race. It is twenty-six-point-two miles of iconic landmarks, cheers, tears, sweat, pain, courage, determination and inspiration. It is triumph over adversity on a colossal scale. It is the London Marathon - and it's an event unlike any other. Running The Smoke tells...
Runner's World Complete Book of Women's Running
The Best Advice to Get Started, Stay Motivated, Lose Weight, Run Injury-Free, Be Safe, and Train for Any Distance
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Runner's World Complete Book of Women's Running is designed specifically to address the unique challenges and rewards the sport presents to the fastest growing segment of the market—women runners.
More than 10 million women across the country now identify themselves as regular runners. In...
by J. M. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
So you wanna run?
OK, then let’s run. But it’s not going to be easy and this no nonsense program is not for the faint of heart. If you want to run with us, you can’t be a punk! Running a marathon is not for the weak bodied or for the fragile spirited.
The physical part of running...
Up and Running
Your 8-week plan to go from 0-5k and beyond and discover the life-changing power of running
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
If you think that running is just for slim, fit and sporty types, think again!
The Trail Runner's Companion
A Step-by-Step Guide to Trail Running and Racing, from 5Ks to Ultras
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The sport of trail running is booming as more runners seek more adventurous routes and a deeper connection with nature. Not only are runners taking to the trail, but a growing number are challenging themselves to go past the conventional 26.2-mile marathon point. The time is right for a book that...
The Longest Race
A Lifelong Runner, An Iconic Ultramarathon, and the Case for Human Endurance
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
“It soon becomes clear that this book isn’t just about an athletic race. It’s also about the human race” (Bloomberg Businessweek).
Having run in more than six hundred races over the span of fifty-five years, Ed Ayres is a legendary distance runner—and this book is his urgent exploration...
by Keven Shevels
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2012
When running off-road, whether it is fell, trail, cross-country or orienteering you will inevitably come across hills and as the saying goes, what goes up, must come down again. Most runners tend to think that the ability to run well downhill is something that you are born with or is handed to you when...
Quick Strength for Runners
8 Weeks to a Better Runner's Body
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Quick Strength for Runners offers a smart, fast-paced strength training program for runners who want to run faster and with fewer injuries. In under an hour a week, runners will strengthen their core and key running muscles to build a better runner's body.
Strength training is crucial to better...