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A Runner's Guide 2 is a collection on of short articles on various aspects of running participation and athletic preparation. Chapters are designed to be short, thought-provoking reads drawn from scientific research, academic study and personal observation on. A wide range of topics are discussed that span the spectrum of time from initial youth involvement to career longevity. It is hoped this text will be as entertaining as it is informative.
LauftrainingSie möchten mit dem Laufen durchstarten, aber statt Runner's High war bei der ersten Joggingrunde eher Hecheln angesagt? Im Park gucken Sie neidvoll auf die Athleten, die mühelos an Ihnen vorbeizuschweben scheinen? Sie wünschen sich nichts sehnlicher, als ebenfalls fit und voll im Flow Runde um Runde drehen zu können? Die tolle Nachricht: Das muss kein Traum bleiben! Denn mit der richtigen Strategie laufen Sie schon nächstes Jahr Ihren ersten Marathon und den einfachsten Weg zu diesem Ziel zeigt Ihnen nun dieser Laufratgeber.Neuroathletik für AnfängerDu hast das Gefühl, bei deinem Training nicht mehr weiter zu kommen? Dich plagen Schmerzen bei einigen Bewegungen? Deine Augen sind von der Arbeit am Monitor jeden Tag müde und trocken, deine Handgelenke durch monotone Arbeit gereizt? Dein Körper will nach einer Verletzung nicht wieder zu seiner vorigen Höchstleistung kommen? Dann ist dieses Buch genau das richtige für dich, denn das Neuroathletiktraining aktiviert Funktionen im Körper, die deinen Körper ganz neu definieren.Marathon laufenWenn man an einen Marathon denkt, dann hat man gleich die Bilder von den großen Veranstaltungen in New York, Chicago, London oder Berlin im Kopf, bei denen mehrere Tausend Teilnehmer durch die Straßen dieser Metropolen laufen und noch mehr Zuschauer am Rand der Strecke stehen und mit Plakaten und Anfeuerungsrufen versuchen, die Läufer zu motivieren und sie bei ihrem Vorhaben zu unterstützen. Wie komme ich dahin und wie schaffe ich es überhaupt, diese unglaublich lange Strecke zu bewältigen?Rope SkippingDer eine oder andere erinnert sich bei dem Gedanken an Seilhüpfen bestimmt noch an die Schulpausen damals auf dem Pausenhof in der Grundschule. Und sicherlich schmunzeln Sie jetzt darüber. Es war als Kind ein Zeitvertreib, hat Spaß gemacht und war im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes ein Kinderspiel. Ist es das heute immer noch?
In this new edition, Olympian and running coach Jeff Galloway brings his proven Run Walk Run® method to cross-country running. Using his method and following the training plans provided, every cross-country runner will improve performance, recover faster, and reduce the risk of injury.Jeff Galloway explains how to build endurance, train and race on hills, run on varied terrain, implement speed training and race strategies, all while maximizing performance. He gives action plans for teamwork training and developing race methods, and he also covers injury prevention and treatment that gets an injured runner back racing in no time.The training programs incorporate Galloway's Magic Mile-the best way to check and monitor training progress-and are suitable for high school and college runners. Runners are also given the tools to set realistic pacing goals for long runs and races and to reach peak performance in the 5K, 1500m, 2000m, and 10K. Every cross-country runner and coach needs this book!
This is the first book to critically examine the relationship between running events in local, national, and international welfare policy, their marketing and management, and the resulting social impacts.
'In The Race Against Time, Askwith touches upon something larger than simply running or sport - he helps us to see ourselves ... Both inspiring and moving' - Adharanand Finn, author of Running with the KenyansA quest for the secrets of happy, healthy whole-life running, and how runners can keep enjoying their sport, whatever their ageWhat do you do when the sport that has been your lifeline to physical and mental well-being starts to slip away from you?Richard Askwith, a life-long running enthusiast, was sunk in mid-life despair. Plagued by injuries and demoralised by failing strength and speed, he was on the point of giving up for good. Then he came across the remarkable world of late-life athletics, and resolved to find out more.The result is a thrilling, life-affirming quest for the secrets of the happy few who keep on running all through life's later decades, culminating in a life-changing adventure at the World Masters Athletics Championships. It's a resounding message of hope for any runner who has felt their joy in their sport being undermined by age.Colourful, informative and inspiring, The Race Against Time is a story of cold science and heart-warming resilience; of champions and also-rans; of sprinting centenarians and forty-something super-athletes barely touched by age. Its heroes are experts and enthusiasts - scientists, coaches, runners - from many countries, each with a different story to tell. What unites them is a single belief: that you don't have to take growing old lying down.This is a book for anyone who has ever felt the healing power of running. It is both a very personal account of one man's journey from despair to hope, and an exhilarating guide, explaining how timely adjustments to lifestyle and training can slow the progress of physiological decay, while sheer human spirit can, if you are lucky, keep you running happily and healthily, all the way into extreme old age.
This book combines diverse range of scholarly analyses that seek to understand how recognition of voices of athletes have developed over decades. While the touchstone is primarily the voices of atheles associated with Olympic-related sports, consideration is also given to actions and opinions of athletes expressed in other sporting spheres.
500 Races, Routes and Adventures contains all the information and practical advice needed to enjoy the best and most unusual running experiences around the world--all gathered in one place, a veritable bucket list for runners. Taking an exciting journey around the world, the book details the best routes, locations, and races worth running on all seven continents (including Antarctica!). Each run is described in vivid detail and presented alongside impressive full-color photography with route/race stats. Entries are written by runningexperts from around the world and categorized into type: road, trail, mountain, desert, winter, nighttime, multi-terrain, urban as well as team and relay runs in addition to novelty runs and festivals. Each entry is plotted onto continent maps as well as easy to use month-by-month race finders. Races are indexed both by type and location, for easy navigation. Whether planning a 5k charity fun run in the local park, a first marathon, a solitary off-road mountain adventure, or an extreme round-the-world ultramarathonchallenge, this information-packed, heavily illustrated book is a one-stop source of inspiration for runners at every level.
An enlightening biography and gripping sports narrative that takes us behind the scenes into the lives of some of the world’s most elite runners in Kenya and their coach, Patrick Sang. "I highly recommend this book." —Meb Keflezighi
In We Can't Run Away From This, ultrarunner Damian Hall examines the impact of running in our climate and ecological emergency. Packed with insights from experts, it is an enlightening read which will prompt us all to really think about our kit, food and travel, and to identify simple changes we can make to our behaviour.
Sabrina Verjee is an ultrarunning phenomenon. In June 2021, on her fourth attempt, she became the first person to climb the Lake District's 214 Wainwright hills in under six days, running 325 miles with a colossal 36,000 metres of ascent. Where There's a Hill is a frank and inspirational account of how one woman ran her way into the record books.
Grab your trainers and get ready to run around the world!Take a loop around stunning Lake Bled, jog along a section of China's famous Great Wall or tackle the historic Boston Marathon: Run celebrates 100 of the world's most amazing races and routes. Featuring a mix of iconic races and epic ultras, off-the-beaten-path trails and welcoming park runs, it's the ultimate inspiration for adventuring on two feet, whether you're a marathon devotee, hardcore trail runner or gentle jogger. So what are you waiting for? Grab your running shoes and get going as you discover: - Three types of running holidays: to attend a training camp, to attend a specific event and to explore a new destination by running through it. - A carefully curated list of 100 of the best runs in the world, chosen by sports journalists and travel experts. - A variety of distances: 5ks for those getting started, through to 10ks, half-marathons, marathons and more- A mix of organized, registration-only races and do-it-yourself runs that might inspire a future holiday. - Runs are mapped and include total distance, terrain and elevation profiles. - Each chapter covers a different continent with runs arranged within each chapter geographically. - Features top tips on preparing for a running holiday. Compiled by a team of sports journalists and keen runners, this book is packed with ideas for your next run. Further featuring top tips for getting the most out of each run - including viewpoints en route, how to make the run shorter/longer depending on your fitness level or how much time you have, and how to tackle an organised race course out of season. Packed full of awe-inspiring images and compelling descriptions of each route that will have you itching to lace up your trainers, while handy maps, elevation profiles and practical information - including things like distance and terrain - will help you plan the nitty gritty of your trip. We've also included the best places to explore while you're there - whether that's epic viewpoints or post-workout lunch spots - as well as suggestions for alternative ways to tackle a route. A must-have running guide for active runners, whether you're keen to "tick-off" famous races, including marathons and quirky competitions, seeking your next challenge or simply looking for inspiration.
The Story of The North Central College Cross Country and Track & Field TeamsRun for Fun and Personal Bests is not about trophies and championships. It's ultimately about much more important goals and lasting rewards for the student athletes who built and benefit from our North Central program.The basic responsibility of a coach should never veer from the goal of stressing core internal values that guide athletes to personal growth.I train cross country and track athletes, but this recipe, this process, should work for any athlete in any sport. I also believe it can guide other young people pursuing a personal goal in school, at work, or in their personal lives, who are asking themselves, "I know where I want to go, but how do I get there?"At times, we are all so busy working toward material outcomes for our youths that we don't have time for the most important needs they require to succeed.In a world that's becoming more materialistic, more professional, more outcome-oriented, we believe, to the contrary, that the ultimate competition is you against you.
The world's oldest and greatest ultra-marathon, the Comrades Marathon is a South African institution that is internationally-recognised for the body-sapping challenge it poses and the camaraderie it fosters among its thousands of participants from all over the world.
Temple's Tigerbelles is a unique rags to riches story unlike any other. They started with only a station wagon and $300, but this group of female track athletes, known as the Tigerbelles, went on to bring home 23 Olympic Medals (including 13 Gold). Featuring 26 color illustrations by award-winning artist James R. Threalkill.
This book starts with an historical account of the Southwest High School cross-country team, from the beginning in 1942, through to the last state championship in 1980. The author was a member of the cross-country team in 1970, 1971 and 1972. The book chronicles his senior season; the summer lead-in, the mileage run during the summer, then the workouts and meets during the season, culminating in the state championship.The book switches after this to following Coach Hall's 30+ year coaching career and how he used the "Southwest System". It looks at all his coaching stops and how this system helped him with the many successes in his career. Interspersed along the way are coaching and running tips and suggestions on how to be a better runner and coach. There is also a summary at the end of how the "Southwest System" works and how it still applies and is relevant today.The author attended Southwest High School where he ran cross-country. After graduating from the University of Minnesota, he started coaching cross-country and track & field in 1979, continuing in one or both sports until 2017. He now makes his home in Louisville, Ky., with his wife and two children and is semi-retired from more than 40 years as a mathematics instructor.
Witty, observant, and full of cringe-worthy confessions and heartwarming encouragement, Confessions celebrates both running and life. Part Bridget Jones, part Forrest Gump, Dana Ayers chronicles her awkward mishaps and adventures in transitioning from childhood bookworm to accidental accomplished athlete.
This book is a tool for individuals interested in getting started in multi-disciplined sports such as triathlons/duathlons, etc and contains great content for novice and seasoned athletes as well. This purpose of this book is to assist those interested in sport/industry a way to reduce cost, enjoy the journey and to remain injury free along the way. This book is written by a panel of African American Subject Matter Experts and touch on topics only African Americans can discuss such as Hair Care and Maintenance, etc. This book is the first and only one of its kind in the industry. This book is or everyone with a special emphasis on African Americans.
"What begins as an exploration into why a certain popular long and brutal Tennessee footrace exists soon expands (rather humorously) into a much broader philosophical examination of why anything at all exists. Two runners in the race don't actually get very far, but spend most of their time discussing it and arguing their thoughts about almost everything. They don't like each other very much either, but they've haplessly stuck together (for survival) and do respect one another's ideas (while trying forever to argue them down). This is adventure not in the physical but in the mental sense. It will challenge just about everything you hold sacred and believe in, and it should make you think. This is not for the passive masses, the followers-blindly, or those intellectually squeamish peeps that happen to find themselves already entered--without asking why--in the (human) race, "the race that eats its young."--Back cover.
The 1968 US men's Olympic track and field team won 12 gold medals and set six world records at the Mexico City Games, one of the most dominant performances in Olympic history. The team featured such legends as Tommie Smith, Bob Beamon, Al Oerter, and Dick Fosbury. Fifty years later, the team is mostly remembered for embodying the tumultuous social and racial climate of 1968. The Black Power protest of Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the victory stand in Mexico City remains one of the most enduring images of the 1960s. Less known is the role that a 400-meter track carved out of the Eldorado National Forest above Lake Tahoe played in molding that juggernaut. To acclimate US athletes for the 7,300-foot elevation of Mexico City, the US Olympic Committee held a two-month training camp and final Olympic selection meet for the ages at Echo Summit near the California-Nevada border. Never has a sporting event of such consequence been held in such an ethereal setting. On a track in which hundreds of trees were left standing on the infield to minimize the environmental impact, four world records fell--more than have been set at any US meet since (including the 1984 and 1996 Olympics). But the road to Echo Summit was tortuous--the Vietnam War was raging, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated, and a group of athletes based out of San Jose State had been threatening to boycott the Mexico City Games to protest racial injustice. Informed by dozens of interviews by longtime sports journalist and track enthusiast Bob Burns, this is the story of how in one of the most divisive years in American history, a California mountaintop provided an incomparable group of Americans shelter from the storm.
Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and friends, Annabelle, eighteen, runs from Seattle to Washington, D.C., becoming a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to her recent trauma.
The Tigerbelles tells the epic story of the 1960 Tennessee State University all-Black women's track team, which found Olympic glory at the 1960 games in Rome. The author tells a story of desire, success and failure--of beating the odds--against the backdrop of a changing America, but tells it in an intimate way. Readers will come to know the individuals' unique struggles and triumphs, while also understanding how these dreams emerged and solidified just as the country was struggling to leave the Jim Crow era behind. Coach Edward Temple pushed each team member to the limit and saw the possibilities in them that they often did not see themselves. The elite group of talent included Wilma Rudolph, Barbara Jones, Lucinda Williams, Martha Hudson, Willye B. White and Shirley Crowder: women who once were and should still be known world-wide. Ultimately the team's drive was for more than medals: Coach Temple and the Tigerbelles wanted to change the world's perception of what a group of young Black women in the Jim Crow south were capable of. Tigerbelles is a multi-layered inspirational tale of triumph over adversity. Based on memoirs and interviews with surviving team members, including Coach Temple, this is the story of an impossible dream come true.
This book contains a wealth of information on the lost art of pedestrianism, as well as having sections on other athletic performances such as running and jumping. Primarily this book is a detailed catalogue of records of the best walking, running, and jumping performances in both an amateur and professional capacity. Also included herein is everything you might need to know about these sports, including training methodology, dietary suggestions, and the treatment of injuries and related ailments. This rare book contains timeless sporting information still valuable today, and constitutes a great addition to collections of antiquarian sporting literature. John Henry Walsh (1810 - 1888) was a prolific English writer of sports-news who often went by the pseudonym ¿Stonehenge¿. His notable works include "The Modern Sportsman's Gun and Rifle" (1882), "The Horse in the Stable and in the Field" (1861), and "The Shot-Gun and Sporting Rifle" (1859). Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Eine zweifache Überlebensgeschichte.Im Alter von acht Jahren wurde Shaul Ladany 1944 mit seiner Familie aus Ungarn in das KZ Bergen-Belsen deportiert, konnte aber als Mitglied der sog. »Kasztner-Gruppe« in die Schweiz ausreisen. Später wanderte er nach Israel aus und wurde ein bekannter Wissenschaftler und Sportler. Als Geher nahm er an den Olympischen Spielen in München teil und überlebte den Anschlag der palästinensischen Terrorgruppe auf die israelische Mannschaft am 5. September 1972.Im Begleitband zur Ausstellung »Lebensläufe. Verfolgung und Überleben im Spiegel der Sammlung von Shaul Ladany« werden zahlreiche Originaldokumente zur Verfolgung im Nationalsozialismus präsentiert, ergänzt um Informationen zur deutschen Besatzungsherrschaft in Serbien und Ungarn sowie zum Neuanfang der Überlebenden im Staat Israel.Auch der antisemitisch begründete Anschlag bei den Olympischen Spielen 1972 wird anhand von Quellen dargestellt.Die pädagogische Handreichung bietet die Möglichkeit zur Auseinandersetzung mit Kontinuitätslinien des Antisemitismus durch die Kontextualisierung des Schicksals von Shaul Ladany. Das Material, teilweise bestehend aus perforierten, heraustrennbaren Seiten, ist ab SEK. II einsetzbar. Es enthält neben historischem Quellenmaterial didaktische Empfehlungen.Die Bände erscheinen zweisprachig in Deutsch und Englisch.
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