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Running Until You're 100 is the must-have guide that will keep runners fit as they age and help them run for life. Using Jeff Galloway's proven Run Walk Runa. method, this book offers step-by-step programs for runners in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. These programs make the needed adjustments for each decade, which means the runner can enjoy exercise and enhance life without injury. Also included is advice on nutrition and fat burning as well as how...

"I Hate Running and You Can Too is a humorous, punchy, motivating guide to running longer distances than some might think sensible-whether that's a 5K or a marathon. Outside magazine columnist, chart-ist, and longtime runner, Brendan Leonard gets real on the love/hate relationship all runners have with the sport. He breaks down running in terms that speak to everyone who has ever struggled to get out the door and go for a run: getting comfortable...

Running Columnist and music writer Ben Kaplan explains how to train for a marathon in one year and provides recommendations for songs to run to from such artists as Justin Bieber, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Ghostface Killah, Dolly Parton, and The Black Keys. Book jacket.

Everyone knows how to run-- it's naturally wired into your body. But trendy gadgets and obsessive dogmas have overwhelmed this simple, intuitive activity. Burfoot shares practical advice on how to run with greater joy and health for an entire lifetime. He shares tips on how to motivate yourself, avoid injuries, increase speed and endurance, and reach your goals.

Top female ultramarathon runner Moehl will become your guide to completing a 50k, 50-mile or 100-mile race. Her experience translates into the most effective and easy-to-follow training method, broken down into phases to help all runners take it to the next level.

"From the lead author of Build Your Running Body ("the best running book ever"--Runner's World founder Bob Anderson), a one-of-a-kind guide for everyone who wants to run but feels they can't,"--Amazon.com.

In this energetic and ever-so-fun nonfiction picture book about the world's most famous race, readers follow runners from all over the world as they stretch, make their playlist, eat a spaghetti dinner, and then pound, pound, pound through the five boroughs of New York City, all the way to the finish line.

Do you consider yourself too old or out of shape to run a marathon? Do you fear that you lack the conditioning, motivation, or emotional strength to finish? Fear not! Grete Waitz, nine-time winner of the New York City Marathon, has a program for you that has proven to help runners do what they thought was impossible: complete their first marathon. In this updated and revised third edition of Run Your First Marathon, Waitz offers: An easy-to-follow...

With comprehensive, illustrated information on running health and injury prevention, this book is the first to include embedded scan codes that lead readers to videos addressing such issues as shin splints, plantar fasciitis, stress fractures, and runner's knee.