Alberto Salazar's Guide to Road Racing
by Alberto Salazar and Richard Lovett
"A key resource I heartily recommend." - Bill Rodgers, four-time Boston Marathon Winner, four-time New York City Marathon Winner. "Runners have much to gain from Alberto Salazar's world-class knowledge." - Mary Decker Slaney, World-Record Holder, Olympian. Road racing has become one of North America's most popular competitive sports. Thousands of people participate in road races every year, from 5K, 8K, and 10K fun-runs to half-marathons, marathons, and beyond. And with every race, more people a...
Triathlon Training: Running is essential reading for runners who want to improve their lap times, athletes who want to incorporate running into a multi-sport programme and anyone considering training for their first triathlon. Practical, effective and easy to understand, it contains all the information and advice that serious runners need to improve their technique and achieve great results. It includes: improving your technique for the best results outdoor and track training techniques for spee...
Eight days ! ! three gold medals ! ! three world records ! one amazing reputation firmly established. Usain Bolt's life -- and the world of sport -- would never be quite the same again. 16 August 2008 ! Beijing, China ! the Bird's Nest stadium ! 91,000 spectators and an unimaginably huge global television audience ! the final of the men's 100 metres at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. The crack of the starter's pistol triggers thousands of camera flash bulbs ! and precisely 9.69 seconds later a...
Winning Track and Field for Girls, Second Edition (Winning Sports for Girls)
by Housewright Ed and M a Foreword by Jason-Lamont Jackson
Track and Field (Creative Education Illustrated Sports Almanacs)
by David Paige
It was a blustery late spring day in 1954 and a young Oxford medical student flung himself over the line in a mile race. There was an agonising pause, and then the timekeeper announced the record: three minutes, fifty-nine point four seconds. But no one heard anything after that first word - 'three'. One of the most iconic barriers of sport had been broken, and Roger Bannister had become the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. To this day, more men have conquered Mount Everest than...
"I'd always been the kind of person who hated half steps; once I found a passion for something, I wanted to dive into the deep end of it." Jeffrey has run over 150 marathons in six continents, completing more than 3,930 miles. This book tells the story of the one hundred races in his first eighteen years of marathoning: his training, injuries, triumphs, and failures. He admits that runners are a little bit crazy, submitting themselves to intense physical pain and constant self-doubt, but explain...
History of Welsh Athletics
by John Collins, Alan Currie, Brenda Currie, Mike Walters, and Clive Williams