Run Strong, Stay Hungry

9 Keys to Staying in the Race

Jonathan Beverly (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2018
VeloPress (Verlag)
978-1-937715-69-4 (ISBN)

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In Run Strong, Stay Hungry, running journalist Jonathan Beverly reveals the secrets of veteran racers who are still racing fast and loving the sport decades after they got their start. Beverly collects the habits and mindsets of more than 50 runners including Bill Rodgers, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Deena Kastor, Benji Durden, Colleen De Reuck, Dave Dunham, Kathrine Switzer, and Roger Robinson. Run Strong, Stay Hungry shares 9 keys from these veteran racers that let them keep running strong and staying hungry for competition.

Are they biomechanically gifted? Stubborn? Simply lucky to have avoided injury? Turns out, there’s a lot more to it. In his comprehensive research, Beverly discovers that these runners all share specific perspectives and habits that allow them to adapt to changing life circumstances, accept declining abilities, and rebound from setbacks. These keys not only keep them on their feet, but also allow them to continue to draw the same enjoyment from the sport whether they are winning championships or finishing in the middle of the pack, cranking out 100-mile weeks and doing blazing speed work on the track, or squeezing in just enough miles into a busy schedule to simply feel fit and fast and occasionally test that fitness in a race.

Beverly interviews over 50 runners including Bill Rodgers, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Deena Kastor, Benji Durden, Colleen De Reuck, Dave Dunham, Kathrine Switzer, and Roger Robinson. From training methods to mental attitudes to finding community among their fellow runners, there are specific keys that help these masters runners to adapt, accept, and rebound from the hurdles that life and aging put in their path. By adopting the practices of these lifetime competitors, you too can enjoy a lifelong, healthy running career as well as boost your enjoyment of running and your racing performance.

Jonathan Beverly is a journalist, runner, photographer, and running coach.The former editor in chief ofRunning Timesand shoe editor forRunner's WorldandRunning Times, Beverly draws on decades of experience in the sport and the industry. As editor, he wrote 150 columns, more than 35 feature stories and numerous training articles, athlete profiles, race reports, and shoe and gear reviews. His recent work has appeared in Competitor, Runner's World, Outside, V02Run, Fitbit.com, and Running Insight. In 2006, Beverly received the Journalistic Excellence Award from the Road Runners Club of America. Learn more at jonathanbeverly.com.

Introduction

1 Why They Stop

THE KEYS

Part One: Physiological Principles

2 Consistency: Making running a habit

3 Variety: Mixing things up

4 Training by Feel: Letting go of the watch and schedule

Part Two: Psychological Principles

5 Humility and Hunger: The promise of humble beginnings

6 Adaptability, Part 1: Setting goals

7 Adaptability, Part 2: Flexing with the times

8 Students of the Sport: Knowledge that directs and excites

9 Staying Connected: Nurturing the ties that bind and motivate

10 Hope: The power of optimism

11 Love: It makes the world go 'round

Afterword: Why be a lifetime competitor

Contributing Runners

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	01.02.2018
Zusatzinfo	2 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Leichtathletik / Turnen
ISBN-10	1-937715-69-8 / 1937715698
ISBN-13	978-1-937715-69-4 / 9781937715694
Zustand	Neuware