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1) The trail runner's companion: a step-by-step guide to trail running and racing, from 5Ks to Ultras
Author
Publisher
FalconGuides
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
viii, 287 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Trail Runner's Companion provides an inspirational, practical, and goal-oriented guide that coaches the reader to become a better and more satisfied runner through trail running. Written by veteran trail runner and competitor, Sarah Lavender Smith, each chapter opens with a compelling story, told in the author's engaging voice. Readers will embark on a journey that begins with safe, consistent training and culminates in adventurous, ambitious...
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Language
English
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RUNNER'S WORLD is filled with powerful information that will help you run faster and farther and have more fun doing it! Every issue brings you the strategies, tips and advice to fuel your performance, prevent injuries, burn fat, shed stress, and achieve your personal goals.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"From the best-selling author and renowned coach duo from Born to Run, a fully illustrated, practical guide to running for everyone from amateurs to seasoned runners, about how to eat, race, and train like the world's best."--Publisher's description.
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Language
English
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Description
For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force — and darling — in the grueling and growing sport of ultrarunning. In 1999, as a complete unknown, he took the lead of the Western States Endurance Run, a 100-mile traverse over the old Gold Rush trails of the California Sierra Nevada. He won that race seven years in a row, setting a course record along the way. Twice he won the Badwater Ultramarathon, a 135-mile “jaunt” through...
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Language
English
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Description
For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare -- poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical...
Author
Publisher
Victory Belt Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
288 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Is there a bridge from the injury-ridden world of the modern runner to the promised land that barefoot running and Born to Run have led us to believe exists? Can we really live the running life free from injury? Is there an approach designed to unlock all the athletic potential that may be hidden within? Can we run faster, longer, and more efficiently? In a direct answer to the modern runner’s needs, Dr. Kelly Starrett, author of the bestseller...
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Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xiii, 304 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
With 50 percent updated content, this new edition makes a tantalizing promise: readers can get better results by training less. Includes more sections for novice runners and marathon plans tailored for new qualifying times.
Author
Publisher
Human Kinetics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
x, 229 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book, written by a front-of-the-pack distance runner who is also a sport psychologist and coach, uses case studies of elite and average runners and detailed guidance (including exercises, worksheets, etc.) to help the reader develop and foster the mental training skills required for success in ultrarunning"--
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Descubre cómo la ciencia puede ayudarte a lograr el máximo rendimiento sin lesionarte Tanto si estás empezando como si eres un corredor experimentado, este libro te ayudará a lograr tus objetivos sin lesionarte. -Analiza tu forma de correr y aprende cómo mejorar para lograr un rendimiento más eficiente y evitar lesiones. -Transforma tu entrenamiento con ejercicios de fuerza, flexibilidad y recuperación. Cada ejercicio explica la mecánica muscular...
10) Chi marathon: the breakthrough natural running program for a pain-free half-marathon and marathon
Author
Publisher
Touchstone Book
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xxii, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Chi Marathon, Danny Dreyer, creator of the revolutionary ChiRunning program, highly respected running coach, and accomplished distance runner, takes a whole-body approach to long-distance running—much like T’ai Chi—making ease and efficiency of movement the prime goal of one’s training. Chi Marathon is the first book to focus not on building stamina first (though that is covered here) but on how to run all those miles without harming your...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed author of Flipped delivers a powerful and healing story that’s perfect for anyone who’s ever thought that something was impossible. Readers will revel in the story of a girl who puts herself back together—and learns to dream bigger than ever before—after she’s told she’ll never run again.
Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She's...
Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She's...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xxii, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking program that teaches you how to run faster and farther with less effort, and prevent and heal injuries, for runners of any age or fitness level. In ChiRunning, Danny and Katherine Dreyer, well-known walking and running coaches, provide powerful insight that transforms running from a high-injury sport to a body-friendly, injury-free fitness phenomenon. ChiRunning employs the deep power reserves in the core muscles, an approach found...
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Series
Mr. Putter and Tabby volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Mr. Putter is convinced to run in a senior marathon with his neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, when he learns that second prize is a train set.
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
208 pages
Language
English
Description
Part memoir, part scientific investigation, Racing the Clock is the book biologist and natural historian Bernd Heinrich has been waiting his entire life to write. A dedicated and accomplished marathon (and ultra-marathon) runner who won his first marathon at age thirty-nine, Heinrich looks deeply at running, aging, and the body, exploring the unresolved relationship between metabolism, diet, exercise, and age. Why do some bodies age differently than...
16) Heartbeat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sisters Stella and Ellie Steckler are both determined to win a scholarship and escape their stifling small town, but their plans are upset when a new girl joins the cross country team and then disappears.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
291 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
An expert ultrarunner describes how he set out to break the speed record for the Appalachian Trail, a 2,189 mile journey that took an unforeseen physical and emotional toll, but also offered him unexpected rewards.
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