Jen van allen manages the runner s world challenge program and regularly contributes to the magazine. Here are nine running related reads i plan to add to my bookshelf over. A running legends life and death and life by alberto salazar unbroken. On may 6, 1967, maureen wilton, a yearold girl from a suburb of toronto, canada, attempted to break the womens marathon world record of 3. Marathon stories is a must have for any runners,fans of the olympics, and marathon enthusiasts. Mebs 26 marathons is like opening a treasure chest full of inspiring stories.
Becky wade contributing writer becky wade is a threetime olympic trials competitor with a 2. A dozen books to kickstart your athletics library world athletics. She has finished 35 marathons, winning new york in 1974, and has been an authority on running for over 30 years. In his running focused memoir, one of the world s greatest living novelists recounts his training for the new york city marathon. The best books for runners runners world australia. Accounts of tackling the london marathon by michael mcewan isbn. Kathy switzer was the first woman to run the boston marathon with a bib number in 1967. Winning strategies, inpiring stories, and the ultimate training tools. From memoir to fiction, health to hope, here are some great books. The runners world big book of marathon and halfmarathon. In this book, some of the experts at runner s world, like amby burfoot and bart yasso, have pulled together all of their knowledge and experience along with a host of medical opinions from running doctors and nutritionists and inspirational stories from average people to write a definitive guide to preparing for your first or next marathon or. Lisa jackson started running when she was 31 and since then shes ran more than 90 marathons. It is entitled, fittingly enough, 26 marathons rodale books, 2019.
Winning strategies, inpiring stories, and the ultimate training tools burfoot, amby. An examiner of the human experience, murakami describes the act. The true story of a thirteenyearold womens running revolutionary. The runners world big book of marathon and halfmarathon training. Amby burfoot, editor at large, runners world magazine.
Runners world big book of marathon and halfmarathon. The author, a longtime runner herself, also includes several activity pages in the back of the book to keep little minds stimulated long after the story is done. Amby burfoot, runner s world s editor at large and winner of the 1968 boston marathon, has run more than 100,000 lifetime miles and counting. Running books 2019 best books for runners runners world.
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