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101 Inspirational Stories of Energy, Endurance, and Endorphins
When runners aren't running, they're talking about running, planning their next run, shopping for running. This book contains 101 stories from everyday & famous runners... how running has improved their lives, how they've recovered from injuries, how they've challenged themselves.
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The Barefoot Running Book is a concise collection of advice to help new and experienced runners make the transition to barefoot or minimal shoe running. More runners are shedding their heavy, overly-cushioned shoes in favor of their bare feet or lightweight minimalist shoes. These shoes allow us to run with better form, reducing injury and allowing for a more enjoyable running experience.
Barefoot Running is a guide to barefoot running. If you've read Born to Run by Chris McDougall and you're wondering about barefoot running, this book is for you. Whether you're a new or seasoned barefoot runner, this book will take you farther than you ever imagined.
Tales From Out There is the story of the Barkley Marathons, a 100 mile footrace in the hills of Tennessee. The Barkley is arguably the world's toughest long-distance trail foot-race. This book covers the 24-year history of the event in detail, including results, photographs, charts, and maps.
Stories and Advice to Keep You Moving
Whether you're a casual weekend warrior, a seasoned ultra marathoner, or somewhere in between, you recognize the heart and passion of runners who are just like you. Serious, competitive athletes and those who just want to shed a few pounds will find common ground in The Ultimate Runner, a celebration of running, in heartfelt narratives, spectacular photos, and expert advice.
There are even a couple of photos taken by Zombie DC.
See what it takes to maximize running strength, speed, and endurance. Running Anatomy will show you how to improve your performance by increasing muscular strength, optimizing the efficiency of your running motion, and minimizing your risk for injury.
The book features 50 of the most effective strength exercises for runners, each with clear, step-by-step descriptions and full-color anatomical illustrations highlighting the muscles in action. But you'll find much more than exercises--you'll also see their results.
Now revised, expanded and updated, Lore of Running gives you incomparable detail on physiology, training, racing, injuries, world-class athletes, and races.
Author Tim Noakes blends the expertise of a physician and research scientist with the passion of a dedicated runner to answer the most pressing questions for those who are serious about the sport.
4th Edition
Too often athletes spend vast amounts of money, time, and energy on training, equipment, and travel, but little or no preparation on their feet. The highly successful Fixing Your Feet has been revised and updated to make it an even more complete source of information about proper foot care for the runner, hiker, adventure racer, or any athlete. Learn to be proactive in preventing foot problems through proper techniques, reactive with treatments when problems develop, and what supplies and resources are available. This highly practical and usable book is for anyone who spends time on their feet.
Near-death and Resurrection on the World's Toughest Endurance Course
In 1989, two runners set off to become the first to run from Death Valley to Mt. Whitney and back--in mid-summer. Lotsa luck fellers!
Death Valley Ultras: The Complete Crewing Guide is a collection of everything runners and their crew need to know to crew a successful Death Valley ultra compiled into one well-organized, easy to use reference.
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world's greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong. 2009, hardcover, 304 pages.
This is the story of Ted Archer's running of Marathon Des Sables, a 153-mile self-sufficiency race through the earth's most godforsaken terrain: dunes, salt flats, and rock gardens. Each year, hundreds of runners travel from around the world to take part in one of the world's toughest footraces.
UltraRunning is devoted to covering the sport of long distance running, also known as ultramarathoning, or, as we prefer, ultrarunning. How far is "a long distance"? The standard definition is anything past the marathon, or 26.2 miles. However, the shortest standard distance that is considered an ultra is the 50 kilometer distance, or 31.07 miles. Other standard distances are the 50 mile, 100 mile, 100 km, and a series of events that last for specified time periods such as 6 hour, 12 hour, 24 hour, 48 hour, and 6 days.
Marathon & Beyond is a perfect magazine for ZombieRunner customers. It's tailored specifically for marathoners and ultra runners.
Whether you're training for your first long-distance race or seeking new motivation for your running, Marathon & Beyond magazine should be an essential training tool.
Subscribe online at the Marathon & Beyond web site.
The San Francisco Bay Area is a trail-running hub. Miles of trails make convenient and wild escapes, while the Mediterranean climate allows for comfortable year-round running. Trail Runner's Guide: San Francisco Bay Area launches you into the sport with a selection of the best trail runs in the region's parklands and open spaces.
On a network of paths that ring the San Francisco Bay, high on the ridge line, the Bay Area Ridge Trail provides quickly accessible recreational opportunities for Bay Area residents and visitors alike to hike, mountain bike, and ride a horse. When complete, this 550-mile trail will link more than 75 public parks and open spaces. With over a dozen new hikes, the fully updated third edition of the official guide to the trail covers the more than 300 miles that have been opened to date. Each trail-segment description includes information on amenities such as restrooms and water, driving directions, and accessibility logistics for those traveling by foot, mountain bike, horseback, wheelchair, or public transportation.
Outdoor Adventures in & Around Santa Clara Valley
Join hikers, runners, bicyclists, and equestrians on some of the Bay Area's finest trails, from Mount Diablo through the Santa Clara Valley and the Santa Cruz Mountains to the Pacific Coast. This expanded third edition provides updated maps and information on park facilities, fees, and regulations. Discover favorite spots while learning about the region's geology , natural history, and wildlife from three of the area's dedicated naturalists and classic Wilderness Press authors.
Get in the best shape of your running career with the scientifically based training in Daniels' Running Formula. In the book that Runner's World magazine called "the best training book," premier running coach Jack Daniels provides you with his proven VDOT formula to guide you through training at exactly the right intensity to become a faster, stronger runner. Paperback.
Athletes and coaches are continually seeking ways to maximize efforts in both training and performance. Advanced Sports Nutrition provides the best research- and results-based information and advice that athletes need to gain an edge physically.
Far beyond the typical food pyramid formula, this comprehensive guide presents cutting-edge nutritional concepts tailored for application by athletes in any sport. World-renowned sports nutritionist Dr. Dan Benardot breaks down the chemistry of improved performance into winning principles that ensure an athlete's key energy systems are properly stocked at all times.
Find your endurance advantage in the foods you eat. Endurance Sports Nutrition will help you select the best foods, fluids, and supplements to train longer, recover more quickly, avoid injuries, and achieve your performance goals in any endurance endeavor. Sports dietitian and former elite runner Suzanne Girard Eberle provides a proven fueling program that addresses the unique needs of endurance athletes.
Gain the vegetarian advantage! Vegetarian meal plans have been used successfully in everything from bodybuilding to endurance sports. Every day more and more athletes--even those who are not full-time vegetarians--incorporate a plant-based diet when training or recovering from competition.
Natural Posture Solutions for Pain in the Back, Neck, Shoulder, Hip, Knee, and Foot (Remember When It Didn't Hurt)
With a fresh approach to a common problem, this self-help guide to overcoming back pain advocates adopting the natural, healthy posture of athletes, young children, and people from traditional societies the world over. Eight detailed chapters provide illustrated step-by-step instructions for making simple, powerful changes to seated, standing, and sleeping positions. No special equipment or exercise is required, and effects are often immediate. A great book for someone who is serious about achieving a pain-free back and willing to work to reach that goal.
Once a Runner captures the essence of what it means to be a competitive runner, to devote your entire existence to a single-minded pursuit of excellence. It has become one of the most beloved sports novels ever written. Originally self-published in 1978 and sold at road races out of the trunk of the author's car, the book eventually found its way into the hands of high school, college, and postgraduate athletes all over the country. Reading it became a rite of passage on many teams, and tattered copies were handed down like sacred texts from generation to generation. It ranked as the number one most sought-after out-of-print books in the United States in 2007.
2009, hardcover, 288 pages.
Shave minutes off your time using the latest in science-based training for serious runners. Advanced Marathoning has all the information you need to train smarter, remain injury free, and arrive on the start line ready to run the marathon of your life.
A book for anyone who loves to run marathons, by someone who loves them enough to have started and finished 100 of them.
Cited by Runner's World magazine as one of the best books ever written on running, The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life reveals as much about reaching your full potential as it does about sport. Boston Marathon winner Amby Burfoot, one of running's wisest voices, presents 15 life lessons about passion, courage, materialism, failure, and regeneration, all learned during his more than 35 years of experience in running. He discusses a runner's essential traits-qualities necessary for everyone striving to reach a long-term goal-as well as the writing, music, and quotes that have continually inspired him. Most important, Burfoot explains that winners are not those who cross the finish line first, but those who discover more about themselves with every step.
Rachel Toor was a bookish egghead who ran only to catch a bus. How such an unlikely athlete became a runner of ultramarathons is the story of Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the making, and the minutiae, of a runner's life. The food, the clothes, the races, the injuries, the watch (and Toor loves her watch) are all essential to the runner, as readers discover here, and discover why.
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Haruki Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and-even more important-on his writing.
And How You Too Can Achieve Super Endurance!
In the Fall of 2006, Dean Karnazes this challenge: running 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 consecutive days. Dean set off in a caravan packed with fellow runners, with nothing more than a roadmap and a determination. 2008, paperback, 304 pages.
Dean Karnazes is an ultramarathoner, a member of an elite group of athletes who run in 50- and 100-mile races and beyond. In Ultramarathon Man, he recounts some of the biggest races of his life and explains the passion that leads him to push his body to its limits.
The long-awaited sequel to Once a Runner!
For over twenty-five years, fans of Once a Runner have wanted more. Parker has finally written the sequel, which begins in the early 1970s where the previous book left off. The protagonist of the first book, Quenton Cassidy, has lost his best friend and teammate from college, a helicopter gunship pilot who dies a horrific death after crashing in the jungle. Cassidy is plunged into a depressive spiral in which he is forced to re-examine his studiously carefree life as a young, single attorney.
November 2007, 344 pages, hardcover.
A fresh perspective enlivens this classic story about a losing team with an energetic new coach. Written by two Ohio teenagers about their high school's cross-country team, this account offers engaging portraits of the kids and their coach, passes on lessons of hard work and sacrifice, and follows the ascent of the Salem Quakers cross-country team to a first-place ranking in their conference and third place at the 2003 state championships. Along the way the teenagers learn the unromantic truth about the athletic association that regulates their high school sport -- legal wrangling and uproar ensue when officials find scoring errors in a postseason meet. As they develop their talents and teamwork, the teens also learn valuable lessons about sports rules, bureaucracy, and true success.
Bob Boeder's first hand narrative of running the Hardrock 100 through Colorado's San Juan Mountains.
Signed by the author.
Ultra Superior is a true story set in the rugged trails of the Superior National Forest in Northern Minnesota, USA.
What's it like to run 31,50, or 100 miles?
For those who are not content to run merely 26.2 miles, there is ultramarathoning. Some of the biggest ultras are 50 or 100 miles long, races in which people run all day, through the night and on into the next day. What makes them tick? What thoughts go through their minds at mile 93? How is the pain different from that of a marathon? How can you train for such a colossal undertaking? All these questions are answered in 35 interviews with ultramarathoners. Ultramarathoning is the logical next step for those who burn with a desire to achieve and explore their limits. Every kind of ultra runner is included here, and this book will be an indispensable volume for anyone dreaming of running long.
The Holistic, Low-Stress, No-Pain Way to Exceptional Fitness
Dr. Maffetone's unique training system for champions proves that the kinder, gentler approach actually works the best. This fitness regimen has worked for champions and non-athletes alike- because it's based on Dr. Philip Maffetone's deep understanding of how the body works. Maffetone has used that knowledge to develop The Maffetone method, his successful low-stress fitness program, which can be tailored to any individual. It means "training slower to go faster," says Mike Pigg, world champion triathlete and Maffetone client. The Maffetone Method includes: A ten step program to reduce stress and increase overall fitness; Exercise techniques designed for increased results with decreased pain; The real lowdown on some of those fad diets. In short, this is a fitness regimen for champions that everyone can use to reach their own goals whether it be running a marathon or walking around the block.
A Guide for Scholars, Readers, Runners, Joggers and Dreamers
Running in Literature is the first history of running as a literary subject, and in the hands of Roger Robinson, it's informative, original, and wonderfully entertaining.
Life is a Marathon so Double Tie Your Shoes
"I now invite you to join me on a whimsical "re-run" of the year's miles. Each marathon has its own personality, much as do our children, and I'd like you to meet them. Join me at the starting line of the year two-thousand. Double tie your shoes, check your race number, and carry at least three PowerGels. Its gonna be a looonnnngggg run."
- taken from the Preface to Gotta Run... by Elaine Doll-Dunn.
"I run for a tapestry of reasons. Woven in the fabric of my being is a need to control some facet of my life. To subjugate a truculent body to my will, to prove myself every day against a latent temptation/desire to sleep in, over-eat; succumb to the rigors of aging."
- taken from the chapter I'm Hooked! from Running On... by Elaine Doll-Dunn.
Pursue Your Athletic Dreams in the Body You Have Now by Jayne Willliams
"Jayne Williams grew up in the halcyon suburbs of Northern California, began her impractical education in Russian literature at Harvard, and got an M.A. in Slavic Literature from UC Berkeley. She has organized whitewater rafting expeditions in Siberia and around the world and enjoyed years of frantic poverty as a freelance writer, interpreter and editor. She has dabbled in public service and the Internet boom/bust, and lives in Mountain View, California with her husband Tim and their psycho-cat surrogate child."
The compelling story of an average Mike who takes stock of himself and decides to get Fit From Fat. Going from 316 lbs to a healthy weight and lifestyle with no gimmicks, just good advice, good friends, and desire. From unable to walk a mile to entering his first 100 mile trail race in around 18 months, Mike has started a journey that will last the rest of his life. Friendships, Challenges, Setbacks, it is all part of this very human story!
New revision (2006). This durable spiral-bound training journal from the editors at Runners World magazine is both practical to use and inspiring to look at. More than 100 full-color photographs complement weekly spreads for tracking important training data such as distance, time, weather, pace, and mood. A brief introduction explains how keeping a daily record will motivate and improve performance. Throughout the journal youll find helpful tips on effective training, fitness, racing strategy, gear, and nutrition as well as quotes to inspire you whether you are simply hitting the pavement behind a jogging stroller or training for a marathon.
We highly recommend keeping a running or exercise log. When used properly, a running log is both motivating and diagnostic. Use it to help plan race preparation and if, heaven forbid, you get injured along the way, it can help you isolate the cause and avoid similar setbacks in the future. This best selling, non-dated, 52 week log comes with advice from Jeff Galloway, Bill Rogers and more.
This astounding visual archive documents the evolution of Palo Alto from a small town surrounded by dairies, farms, and apricot orchards to a tech-industry giant that finds its roots firmly attached to Stanford University.
For fans of Max Brooks's The Zombie Survival Guide and zombie aficionados everywhere, a hilarious debut novel about life (and love) after death.
