Jenny Baker had planned a year of running to celebrate her birthday; instead she was hit with a bombshell and diagnosed with breast cancer. She had one question for her oncologist: can I keep running? Run For Your Life is the story of how she kept running to beat cancer, and how it helped her get her life back after an intensive spell of treatment.

At 18 months he went on his first hike. At 3, he climbed his first mountain. At 26, he plans to run up Everest - without an oxygen mask. Kilian Jornet has conquered some of the toughest physical tests on the planet. This book is written from the heart of the world's greatest endurance runner, for whom life presents one simple choice: Run. Or die.

Provides readers the core essentials of marathon training, nutrition, injury prevention, and more. This book includes testimonials from real runners, more than 25 training plans for every level and ability, workouts, a runner's dictionary, and sample meal plans.

Rhythmic breathing increases lung volume; improves awareness and control; helps prevent injury and side stitches; improves running for those with asthma; allows runners to quickly set a pace for quality training and racing; and helps athletes manage muscle cramps. This book reviews the basics of rhythmic breathing.

Includes tips, advice, and motivation from the pros to keep runners going all year long. With space for recording daily routes, mileage, times, and notes - as well as weekly doses of information on training, nutrition, and injury prevention, this book helps readers track their progress as they achieve their running goals.

Running Anatomy, Second Edition, features 48 of the most effective exercises for runners-each with clear step-by-step descriptions-and 155 anatomical illustrations highlighting the runner's muscles in action.

This is the first book to critically examine the relationship between running events in local, national, and international welfare policy, their marketing and management, and the resulting social impacts.

Running boasts millions of enthusiasts worldwide. For those serious runners, Owen Anderson offers the most comprehensive title revealing the hard science behind better performance. His book synthesizes the latest research on topics like physiology, biomechanics, medicine, genetics, biology, psychology, and training and offers prescriptive advice.

Running The Smoke tells the story of what it's like to take part in this race from the perspectives of twenty-six different people who have participated in it since its inception in 1981. Whether preparing for your first marathon or your 100th, Running The Smoke will give you the encouragement, insight and belief you need to cross that line.