Half-Marathon: A Complete Guide for Women

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Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Oct 23, 2013 - Sports & Recreation - 216 pages

Author of the best-seller "Marathon – You can do it!", Galloway now offers together with his wife a state-of-the-art book on the highly popular half-marathon distance especially for women.
Jeff's trademarked run-walk-run method has helped hundreds of thousands of average people to get off the couch, train for marathons and half-marathons without injury and has helped veterans to improve times. This book offers a step-by-step program for women that starts with setting up your training each week.
Jeff and Barbara will show you how to select a realistic goal, and which workouts are needed to prepare for various performances. The book is loaded with tips especially for women on how to stay motivated, eliminate aches, pains, and injuries, with the minimum training needed to enjoy other aspects of life.

 

Selected pages

Contents

You Can Do It
14
Setting Goals and Priorities
22
Important Health Information
25
The Galloway RunWalkRun Method
37
11
40
Primary Training Components
49
HalfMarathon Training Programs
55
230300
65
Hill running form
80
Endorphins kill pain make you feel good
86
How Speed Training Works
93
Rehearsal
99
YourJournal Will Inspire You
106
Are you tired orjust lazy?
113
Feet low to the ground
121
Copyright

The Drills To Make Running Faster and Easier
74

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About the author (2013)

Jeff Galloway (Atlanta, Georgia) was an average teenage runner who kept learning and working harder, until he became an Olympian. He is the author of the best-selling running book in North America (Galloway’s Book on Running) and is a Runner’s World columnist, as well as an inspirational speaker for more than 200 running and fitness sessions each year. He has worked with over 200,000 average people in training for specific goals and Galloway’s quest for an injury-free marathon training program led him to develop group training programs in 1978. Galloway is the designer of the run-walk-run, low mileage marathon training program (Galloway RUN-WALK-RUN method) with an over 98% success rate.

Barbara Galloway has been a serious runner for years and was on the Florida State women’s track team. Barbara runs practically every day and has competed in over 30 marathons. Her best 10K time is 41:50, and marathon time 3:18. She has a master’s degree in physical education and conducts running clinics during running vacation retreats at Lake Tahoe and Athens, Greece.

Bibliographic information

TitleHalf-Marathon: A Complete Guide for Women
Meyer and Meyer Series
AuthorsJeff Galloway, Barbara Galloway
Editionillustrated
PublisherMeyer & Meyer Verlag, 2013
ISBN1841263664, 9781841263663
Length216 pages
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Sports & Recreation / Gymnastics
  
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