The Little Red Book of Running (Little Books) - Hardcover

Douglas, Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1616082968 ISBN 13: 9781616082963

Publisher: Skyhorse, 2011

Synopsis

Scott Douglas offers the advice he’s gleaned from three decades of running, from twenty years as a running writer, and from the deep connections he’s made with top runners and coaches around the country and around the world. The 250 tips offered here are the next best thing to having a personal coach or an experienced running partner. Douglas includes tips for increasing your daily, weekly, and yearly mileage; advice on increasing your speed and racing faster; useful knowledge on how to stay injury-free and be a healthy runner; and much more.

The range of tips means there’s something for any runner someone looking to start running to get in shape, a competitive high school or college runner, an athlete looking to move into running, or an experienced runner looking to improve his or her time in an up- coming marathon. You have the questions: What running apparel is best? What kind of gear do you need to run in the rain or snow? How do you find time in a busy schedule to run? How can you set and achieve meaningful goals? Douglas has the answers.

In a hardcover edition handsome enough to give as a gift, The Little Red Book of Running is more than a handbook it’s a runner’s new best friend.

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About the Author

Amby Burfoot won the Boston Marathon in 1968 and joined Runner's World ten years later. He became executive editor in 1985, and he held the position for twenty years before retiring in 2013. Amby has run 110,000 miles in his lifetime and owns the US's longest active "race road streak," having completed the Thanksgiving Day 5-mile run in Manchester, Connecticut, fifty-five years in a row. Currently a writer at-large for Runner's World, he has been honored by numerous running organizations both as an athlete and as a writer. Now in his early seventies, he continues running up to thirty miles a week.

Review

"Reading 'The Little Red Book of Running' is like having a casual conversation with a wise, gregarious coach--one of those conversations where you sit back, put your feet up and pick his brain on everything from warm-up routines and race nutrition to motivation and even how to schedule all levels of training into real life. It is a veritable crash course in a life's worth of learned running knowledge, from the small tidbits on things like injury prevention and stretching to general philosophies on training and running in general." --Molly Huddle, American record-holder for 5 kilometers

"Scott has achieved something of genuine value. There's much to be said for a single source that includes a little of everything you need to know about running. That's what 'The Little Red Book of Running' is--all 250 tips of it... It will be a long time before someone comes up with better racing advice than this." --Runner's World

"In writing this nifty little book, Scott Douglas spells out a lot of what any runner should ever need to know. Written in what might be best considered a smartly organized stream of consciousness, the book contains 250 snippets of informed tips, sagely advice and downright good ideas culled from his 30-plus years of running and 20-plus years of writing about performance-oriented aspects of the sport . . . long runs, speed work, fartleks, hills and mileage to injuries, stretching, form, shoes and one-stepping. It's written in the easy-to-digest, here's-how-it's-done tone of a coach, running partner and veteran racer rolled into one. . . . It's an ideal bedside companion that will never collect dust." -- --Running Times

"If you are looking for inspiration for your next run, trying to solve a training or racing problem, or seeking some timeless running wisdom, 'The Little Red Book of Running' is a great resource." ----how2runfast.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1616082968
• ISBN 13: 9781616082963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224