Ravings Of A Runner

(Free ebook) The book that helps motivate you to find your own runs to rave about. Every runner has great stories about their favorite spots, secret training methods, special moments - good and bad. Here a midpack runner (that ran the Boston Marathon in 2006, 2008, 2009 & 2010) shares all of his with you. If this book doesn't make you want to get up off the couch and do a workout - well at least it is still a good read. Ebook is FREE Chapter 1: That big hill Chapter 2: Marine Corps Marathon is Flat Chapter 3: Sunday morning in Paris Chapter 4: New York Marathon Chapter 5: I am so vain Chapter 6: Robbie Crusoe Chapter 7: By the time we got to Wildflower Chapter 8: The Dude & what he makes me do Chapter 9: Qualifying for Boston Chapter 10: Practicing is different from racing Chapter 11: Boston Marathon Chapter 12: Always wear a helmet

"Steven-A Runner's Life" is my first book and was inspired by being able to attend many of Steven's race events with my husband,Jay, and recording our experiences in my journal. This book includes several of Steven's own blog posts, posted on the Art of [email protected] These posts explain his motivation for trail running and his experiences at many of his races. Also it includes his discipline where he used a special diet, to avoid stomach cramps, and training habits that could be helpful to anyone involved in ultrarunning or ultra sports. (According to Wikipedia, an ultramarathon, also called ultra distance or ultra running, is any footrace longer than the traditional marathon length, which is 26.2 miles. In the last two years of Steven's training for the Ultra trail du Mont Blanc in Chamonix France, he bought and began renovating a cabin in Oregon. This book shows with muti-tasking, discipline and many prayers that all things are possible. I hope you enjoy this book as much as I have enjoyed reliving our experiences.

Runner's World senior editor Katie Neitz has compiled the best tips and techniques on training, pace, nutrition, injury rehabilitation and prevention, and every other detail that will lead to peak performance. In sections devoted to each of the four races, Runner's World Guide to Road Racing lays out the insider secrets of the pros in concise, user-friendly format, including: - Distance-specific training programs - Eating plans - Tips for hydration - Race-day strategies - Pacing recommendations - Advice on achieving the optimal mental state for competition Providing level-specific techniques and strategies for beginner, intermediate, and advanced runners, both competitive and recreational, this is a no-nonsense, fluff-free guide that will quickly become the road racer's bible.

The book is a collection of travel related short stories. The stories are from real travels but the persons and exact situations are changed to protect privacy and prevent problems in sensitive areas. Some of the stories are situational. Others are about people or culture or places out of the ordinary. Others are newsletters written at the time and adapted later for a wider ranging audience. Yet others are dilemmas or frustrating situations turned to fiction to bring humor to the issue. You will learn about a hidden kingdom in Java, off limits to tourists without special permission of the king; take a ride on the Trans Siberian train from Moscow to Beijing and experience adventure along the way; visit Beirut a week after the suicide bombing; and experience what it’s like to work in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Africa will become more than a place for safaris when you visit countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and Central African Republic, all of which have and still do experience conflicts, disease and poverty.

Uncensored, uncontained, and thoroughly demented, the memoirs of Paul Krassner are back in an updated and expanded edition. Paul Krassner, “father of the underground press” (People magazine), founder of the Realist, political radical, Yippie, and award-winning stand-up satirist, shares his stark raving adventures with the likes of Lenny Bruce, Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer, Ken Kesey, Groucho Marx, and Squeaky Fromme, revealing the patriarch of counterculture’s ultimate, intimate, uproarious life on the fringes of society. Whether he’s writing about his friendship with controversial comic Lenny Bruce, introducing Groucho Marx to LSD, his investigation of Scientology, or John Kennedy’s cadaver, no subject is too sacred to be skewered by Krassner. And yet his stories are soulful and philosophical, always authentic to his iconoclastic brand of personal journalism. As Art Spiegelman said, “Krassner is one of the best minds of his generational to be destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked—but mainly hysterical. His true wacky, wackily true autobiography is the definitive book on the sixties.”

A selection of the author's columns from The News Herald in Panama City, Florida.

In an era when cultures clash, two men wage war; trapping one woman in between -- the victim of love.