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September 12, 2024

Marathon and Half-Marathon The Beginner’s Guide

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Free Download Marathon and Half-Marathon: The Beginner’s Guide By Marnie Caron, SportMedBC, Jack Taunton M.D.
2006 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1553651588 | EPUB | 3 MB
Over 20 million Americans run recreationally, but doing it right is more than a matter of buying an expensive pair of shoes and heading for the track. Building on the popularity of The Beginning Runner’s Handbook, this practical, easy-to-use guide provides a step-by-step program for running a half or full marathon for the first time. It shows readers how to get motivated and set realistic goals, choose the proper shoes, eat right, build strength and endurance, and avoid sore muscles and injury. The book includes tips from elite runners on such subjects as staying motivated when the weather is extreme, running technique, running with a dog, and running partners. Finally, the book describes strategies for the race, what to expect on race day, and the psychological effects of finishing a half or full marathon. Most importantly, it includes a full training program designed to ensure that that crucial first race is a winner.

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April 26, 2024

The Marathon Method The 16-Week Training Program that Prepares You to Finish a Full or Half Marathon in Your Best Time

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Free Download Tom Holland, "The Marathon Method: The 16-Week Training Program that Prepares You to Finish a Full or Half Marathon in Your Best Time"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 1592332595 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 9.0 mb
Get Ready to Run! A complete guide to training for a half or full marathon in sixteen weeks, this book follows the format of Tom’s previous book The 12-Week Triathlete with simply the best advice on how to run your fastest race while staying injury-free. Whether you are a first-time marathoner, trying to set a new "PR" or looking to qualify for Boston, this book is for you. "TRAIN LESS AND RUN YOUR BEST" Some worry that running a marathon will involve hours upon hours of training each week. Others fear that they will become injured. Some veteran marathoners have followed other training plans and experienced both, but Tom’s approach is much different. His philosophy of "train less, run your best" will amaze you whether you are running your first marathon or fiftieth. Exercise physiologist and sports performance coach Tom Holland – an elite endurance athlete himself and sub-3 hour marathoner who has run in more than fifty marathons, three ultramarathons, and a dozen Ironman triathlons around the world will teach you how to properly gear up and train in the sixteen weeks prior to your half or full marathon. So when that starting gun sounds, you’ll be equipped with invaluable tips and techniques that will put you in position to run the best race of your life. The Marathon Method provides you with everything you need to know including: Easy-to-understand advice on nutrition, hydration, and gear Customized training plans for beginner, intermediate, and advanced runners Advice on the mental side of running and how to make your mind go that extra mile Strategies to avoid hitting the infamous ‘wall’ Tips on pacing, injury prevention, strength training, flexibility, and much more!

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January 31, 2024

159 The Sub-Two-Hour Marathon Is Within Reach-Here’s How It Will Go Down, and What It Can Teach All Runners about Training an

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Free Download 1:59: The Sub-Two-Hour Marathon Is Within Reach-Here’s How It Will Go Down, and What It Can Teach All Runners about Training and Racing By Philip Maffetone
2014 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1629148377 | EPUB | 2 MB
What will it take to run a marathon in less than two hours? The worldOCOs fastest times for the marathon have been dropping since the distance of 26.2 miles was made official nearly one hundred years ago. But after a noticeable decline that occurred for a half century, the times, while still edging lower, have stalled several minutes north of two hours for the past decade. For the first time, "1:59" examines what it will take for an elite distance runner to go sub?two hours. It will require more than raw talent, optimal body size, and great athletic genes. In order to become marathonOCOs Roger Bannister and smash this elusive record, this runner must follow a healthy diet and an individualized training regimen that takes advantage of specific environmental factors (?live high, train lowOCO). Because precious seconds count over each mile run, other critical considerations include improved running form and economy, sharpened mental focus, and wearing the right type of racing flats (or even going barefoot). The athlete who finally breaks distance runningOCOs most tantalizing barrier will become a worldwide celebrity overnight. Will the runner be a Kenyan, an Ethiopian, an American, or a marathoner from another country? And how soon will it happen? By providing a unique window into the highly competitive world of elite marathon running, this book also allows running enthusiasts to have a thorough understanding of the true potential of endurance athletes. And in turn, they can apply the same training and racing principles discussed in "1:59" to their own running, whether itOCOs a 10K, half marathon, marathon, or ultramarathon. "

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September 28, 2023

Marathon 490 BC The first Persian invasion of Greece

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Free Download Nicholas Sekunda, Richard Hook, "Marathon 490 BC: The first Persian invasion of Greece"
English | 2002 | pages: 93 | ISBN: 1841760005, 0275988368 | PDF | 30,2 mb
Osprey’s study of the first Persian invasion of Greece in 490 BC. The story of the Marathon campaign is an epic of the Ancient World. When the Ionian Greeks revolted against their Persian overlords in 499 BC, the cities of Athens and Eretria came to their aid. The Persian King Darius swore vengeance and in 490BC a fleet of 600 ships packed with troops was sent to take revenge on the Athenians. At Marathon the Greeks met the Persians in battle and drove them in rout back to their ships. The moral effect of this victory was enormous – for the first time a Greek army had defeated the Persians and demonstrated the superiority of hoplite tactics.

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