The Mindful Runner: Finding Your Inner Focus
Runners know there's a profound truth behind the old joke: Running is fifty percent physical and ninety percent mental. The Mindful Runner focuses on the mental side of running. It thoroughly explores the complex landscape of the runner's mind, offering fresh perspectives on how to get the most out of yourself while enjoying the journey along the way. Full of great stories, this book offers new ways to think about running. Running can be a transformative experience, or it can just be great exercise with a tidy bonus of enhanced self-esteem and self-awareness. Learn how to maximize your mental game out there to reach your goals; you're guaranteed to gain a greater appreciation for the rewards and possibilities inherent in running. The Mindful Runner builds on the author's first running book, The Tao of Running, but broadens the focus to all runners going any distance, ensuring that you're covered with advice on mental strategies that apply in any running situation. Running is a great adventure. Make sure you're not missing out on it.
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The Mindful Runner: Finding Your Inner Focus
Runners know there's a profound truth behind the old joke: Running is fifty percent physical and ninety percent mental. The Mindful Runner focuses on the mental side of running. It thoroughly explores the complex landscape of the runner's mind, offering fresh perspectives on how to get the most out of yourself while enjoying the journey along the way. Full of great stories, this book offers new ways to think about running. Running can be a transformative experience, or it can just be great exercise with a tidy bonus of enhanced self-esteem and self-awareness. Learn how to maximize your mental game out there to reach your goals; you're guaranteed to gain a greater appreciation for the rewards and possibilities inherent in running. The Mindful Runner builds on the author's first running book, The Tao of Running, but broadens the focus to all runners going any distance, ensuring that you're covered with advice on mental strategies that apply in any running situation. Running is a great adventure. Make sure you're not missing out on it.
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The Mindful Runner: Finding Your Inner Focus

The Mindful Runner: Finding Your Inner Focus

by Gary Dudney
The Mindful Runner: Finding Your Inner Focus

The Mindful Runner: Finding Your Inner Focus

by Gary Dudney

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Overview

Runners know there's a profound truth behind the old joke: Running is fifty percent physical and ninety percent mental. The Mindful Runner focuses on the mental side of running. It thoroughly explores the complex landscape of the runner's mind, offering fresh perspectives on how to get the most out of yourself while enjoying the journey along the way. Full of great stories, this book offers new ways to think about running. Running can be a transformative experience, or it can just be great exercise with a tidy bonus of enhanced self-esteem and self-awareness. Learn how to maximize your mental game out there to reach your goals; you're guaranteed to gain a greater appreciation for the rewards and possibilities inherent in running. The Mindful Runner builds on the author's first running book, The Tao of Running, but broadens the focus to all runners going any distance, ensuring that you're covered with advice on mental strategies that apply in any running situation. Running is a great adventure. Make sure you're not missing out on it.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781782554691
Publisher: Meyer Meyer Sports
Publication date: 11/01/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

Long–time columnist for Ultrarunning magazine and author of The Tao of Running, Gary Dudney is thrilled to share his hard-won understanding of the mind of the runner from being "out there" himself during 40 years of running. He has also written advice pieces and adventure stories for all the major running magazines. Gary has completed over 200 marathons and ultramarathons, including over sixty 100-mile races. His home base is Monterey, California.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Warm-Up 6

Chapter 1 Running Sucks 15

Chapter 2 The Pride of Wichita 26

Chapter 3 To Have and Have Not 39

Chapter 4 Tempo! Tempo! 54

Chapter 5 Night on Topatopa Bluff 67

Chapter 6 To the Stars Through Difficulty 83

Chapter 7 Jogging Club 93

Chapter 8 No Man Is an Island 109

Chapter 9 My Heart Left Me in San Francisco 126

Chapter 10 On the Edge of the Western World 137

Chapter 11 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 150

Chapter 12 Yo, I Know You're In There 164

Chapter 13 Be Your Dog 174

Chapter 14 Prairie Runner 190

Chapter 15 Once Upon a Time 204

Chapter 16 Twenty-Four Hours of Attitude Adjustment 217

Epilogue: The Cool-Down 232

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