Timeless Running Wisdom

by Rich Benyo

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780736099752
Publisher:	Human Kinetics Publishers
Publication date:	11/03/2010
Series:	1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Embrace Simplicity

Chapter 2: Tap the Athlete (Kathrine Switzer)

Chapter 3: Keep It in Proportion (Amby Burfoot)

Chapter 4: Maintain a Journal (Joe Henderson)

Chapter 5: Take the Measure of Yourself: Race

Chapter 6: Race Different (and Even Weird) Distances

Chapter 7: Eschew Racing (Dick Beardsley)

Chapter 8: Train Specifically (Mel Williams)

Chapter 9: Don’t Ignore Other Body Parts (Joan Benoit)

Chapter 10: Run With a Plan

Chapter 11: Run By Feel

Chapter 12: Move Up in Mileage

Chapter 13: Move Down in Mileage

Chapter 14: Create Adventure Runs (Dean Karnazes)

Chapter 15: Run Under Control

Chapter 16: Run Wild (Lorrain Moller)

Chapter 17: Rest (Marshall Ulrich)

Chapter 18: Run Alone

Chapter 19: Run Together (Bill Rodgers)

Chapter 20: Join a Club

Chapter 21: Volunteer (Allan Steinfeld)

Chapter 22: Spectate

Chapter 23: Study Runners and Running (Roger Robinson)

Chapter 24: Teach Others to Run

Chapter 25: Start Over