Timeless Running Wisdom

Richard Benyo

ISBN 10: 0736099344 / ISBN 13: 9780736099349

Published by Human Kinetics Publishers, 2010

About this Item

Timeless Running Wisdom is the ultimate runners toolbox! With stories and insights from long-time runner Rich Benyo and a few of his world-class friends, learn the best training methods that have withstood the test of time. Break through plateaus, tap into the runners high, and improve performance to achieve a sweeter running experience.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Timeless Running Wisdom
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0736099344
• ISBN 13: 9780736099349
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

You run because you like the way it makes you feel in its best moments. You run with a goal of success and satisfaction. Wouldn’t you like to tap into those feelings more often?

In Timeless Running Wisdom, longtime runner and author Rich Benyo takes you on a journey spanning the trends of the sport and the approaches, concepts, and methods that have bred success and satisfaction across generations of runners. Discover how to embrace simplicity; change up routes, distances, and terrains; keep your running in proportion to the rest of your life; and create your own adventure runs. It’s all here—practical, compelling, and fantastic.

On this quest of rediscovery, you’ll be joined by an all-star array of world- and national-class runners with literally millions of miles of experience and wisdom, including:

• Kathrine Switzer

• Roger Robinson

• Joe Henderson

• Bill Rodgers

• Dean Karnazes

• Amby Burfoot

• Joan Benoit-Samuelson

Through their personal stories, insights, and advice, they illustrate the essence of running success and satisfaction and guide you to achieving your every running goal. With this unique perspective you’ll find the tools and the maps to run longer, safer, and better.

The ultimate runner’s toolbox, Timeless Running Wisdom is also your GPS to the world’s oldest sport. Read this book and you will remember why you fell in love with running in the first place.

About the Author

Rich Benyo is a longtime runner who over the past 30-some years has competed in distance races from 400 meters to ultramarathons and has completed 37 marathons. Named Journalist of the Year by the Road Runners Club of America, he is the former executive editor of Runner’s World Magazine and Anderson World Books, Inc., and is currently the editor of Marathon & Beyond magazine. He has written 22 books on running, health, and fitness, including Running Past 50 and Running Encyclopedia.

Benyo was inducted into Running USA’s Hall of Champions in 2005, and he currently resides in Forestville, California, where he enjoys sailing when he is not running or writing.