Running Books

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…

Get in the best shape of your running career with the scientifically based training in Daniels’ Running Formula.

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…

With detailed training plans for 5K, 10K, half marathon, and marathon, plus tips for goal-setting, rest, recovery, injury rehab and prevention, strength training, and nutrition, this program will change the way runners think about and train for competitive races.

Packed with cutting-edge research, real-world examples, and the wisdom of the world’s top distance runners, Brain Training for Runners offers easily applied advice and delivers practical results for a better overall running experience.

Included are detailed discussions of the biomechanics of running, special strength exercises, stretching, troubleshooting common problems, nutrition for optimal running, and tips to maintain a running program.

This is the definitive book on treadmill training. Treadmill training for Runners will show you how to use the treadmill to reach your running goals.

The biggest dream of every ambitious athlete is to win an Olympic Medal. Healthy Intelligent Training…

Total Heart Rate Training shows anyone participating in aerobic sports, from novice to expert, how to increase the effectiveness of his or her workout.

Though the running boom appears to have peaked and even tapered off somewhat, the marathon is still the ultimate running experience for many runners.

This book’s subtitle describes it best. While exploring the interconnectedness of running with the mind, body, and spirit, Sheehan,…

This gentle approach, from a world-class runner who was once synonymous with overtraining injuries and burnout, will command attention.

Written by distance runners’ Hall of Famer Alberto Salazar, Alberto Salazar’s Guide to Road Racing arms novice and veteran runners, 5Kers, and ultramarathoners …

The Running Times Guide to Breakthrough Running is a one-of-a-kind collection of many of the world’s top running experts who provide their advice and insights so you can make your own personal breakthroughs.

Dr. Romanov’s Pose Method Of Running brings his revolutionary ideas that changed the world of running to the professional athlete and amateur alike.

Running coach/ultramarathon runner Dreyer’s (Chi Walking) program applies principles of t’ai chi to running in a “practice” akin to yoga.

John Bingham, author of the popular Runner’s World column “The Penguin Chronicles,” transformed himself from an overweight couch potato who smoked into a runner who…

John ‘the Penguin’ Bingham is one of the slowest men in sneakers.

Bingham shares the wisdom that took him from couch potato to columnist for Runner’s World magazine. No Need for Speed explores both the why and the how of running for the rest of us.

Olympic athlete Jeff Galloway shows how amateur runners can use the same training principles followed by world-class runners.

Once an overweight, out-of-shape smoker, John Stanton changed his life forever when he entered a three-kilometer road race with his sons in 1983. Realizing that he needed…

A nice addition to the ‘beginner’ stuff since it focuses on running a half marathon – a great intermediary race to do before tackling 26.2.

Originally developed by sports medicine physicians and refined through three years of clinics and responses from runners, it explains precisely how the beginner should train every day for…

This innovative method opens up marathon running to everyone — not just rock-hard athletes, but also those who may be out of shape, overweight, or past their athletic prime.

The Runner’s Yoga Book is an ideal companion for the weekend or professional athlete, for the reader who wants to stretch and relax, and for…

In Runner’s World Guide to Cross-Training, Matt Fitzgerald-seasoned runner, triathlete, sports and fitness journalist, and online coach to runners and triathletes-tells you everything…

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Running is the most comprehensive and up-to-date running-specific training guide in the world today.

This second edition of Jumping Into Plyometrics presents 100 illustrated plyometric exercises in seven categories…

Written in 1977, this biography was evidently resurrected because of a recent TV special and two planned motion pictures about the Oregon long-distance runner, whose life was cut short in 1975 when he crashed his sports car at age 24.

Paula Radcliffe has been hailed as one of the finest female distance runners of all time.

Bowerman was at many important moments of running history; he trained Steve Prefontaine, coached at the Munich Olympics and developed Nike’s waffle-soled shoe

Haile Gebrselassie revolutionized the world of long-distance running over the last decade.

Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe presided over the golden era of British athletics. Between them they won three Olympic gold medals, two silvers, one bronze, and broke a total of twelve middle-distance records.

A Canadian-born Onondaga Indian, he battled racism, rumors of alcohol abuse, and poor training habits to rise to the top of his sport.

Abebe Bikila, a soldier in the imperial guard of Ethiopia’s Haile Selassie, wasn’t just the first African athlete to win a gold medal in Olympic competition. He won the marathon in the 1960 games while running barefoot

Beginning in Newfoundland on April 12, 1980, he ran 26 miles each day for 143 consecutive days. But on September 1, the return of his cancer forced him to stop in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He died ten months later, but by then his dream had been realized

On April 12, 1980, Terry Fox set out from St. John’s, Newfoundland to begin the run across Canada that he named the Marathon of Hope. His ambition was to raise a million dollars for cancer research.

Including updates from the 2008 Summer Olympics, the paperback edition of Marathon Woman details the life of an incredible, pioneering athlete, and the lasting effect she’s had on women’s sports.

Duel in the Sun Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America’s Greatest Marathon

The 1982 Boston Marathon was great theater: Two American runners, Alberto Salazar, a celebrated champion, and Dick Beardsley, a gutsy underdog, going at each other for just under 2 hours and 9 minutes. Neither man broke.

Forty-some years after the barrier was broken it’s difficult to imagine how daunting a challenge the four-minute mile once was, but for a generation of world-class runners it represented the impossible dream.

Bowerman was at many important moments of running history; he trained Steve Prefontaine, coached at the Munich Olympics and developed Nike’s waffle-soled shoe

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