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TFS News Briefs: 2/20/2008

Posted February 20th, 2008 at 1:56 PM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: News & Results, Cross Country, Track & Field, TFS News Briefs

IAAF’s Preview Of Melbourne Grand Prix
At the Melbourne Grand Prix, a highly fit Craig Mottram will take on teen Ethiopian sensation Abreham Cherkos Feleke in the 5000m in front of a home crowd. Jeremy Wariner will run his first 400m of the 2008 season. Asafa Powell is still questionable for the 100m.
Read more at: [IAAF]

New Bookshop at Runner’s World
The Runner’s World website has a new feature: the Runner’s World Bookshop. Included among the offering is Runner’s World Guide To Road Racing, which offers “advice from the pros on training for and competing in the four most popular road races–5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon.”
Read more at: [Runner’s World]

No Indoor Championshipss For Bekele
Kenenisa Bekele will miss the IAAF World Indoor Athletic Championships. Instead, he will focus on the World Cross-Country Championships where he hopes to redeem himself after a disastrous 2007 race in Mombasa, Kenya. In that race he succumbed to the heat and the humidity and was forced to drop out.
Read more at: [Guardian Unlimited, UK]
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2007 Holiday Gifts For Your Favorite Runner: Books

Posted December 13th, 2007 at 3:30 PM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: Running & Training, Motivation, Books, Tools & Resources

If you are having trouble deciding on a gift this season for your favorite runner (or yourself!), here’s a hint: runners love running books. Training manuals, biographies of the legends they seek to emulate, nutrition guides, books that describe how to ramp up the mental aspects of a runner’s performance, fiction, there’s really no end to the range of books you can find nowadays. Here’s a few titles that will help you decide what book to get your favorite aspiring track or marathon star:

Pre: The Story of America’s Greatest
Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine
By: Tom Jordan

This is the ultimate inspirational biography. Steve Prefontaine is a legend in running, perhaps even more than ever even 37 years after his tragic death in a car crash. You can’t go wrong buying your favorite runner this book.

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The “Masters Runner” according to Coach Bob Glover

Posted March 23rd, 2007 at 12:00 PM by Jim Fortner

Section: News & Results, Running & Training, Motivation, Books, Masters

Jim Fortner is a weekly, guest contributor to TFS. Also check out his own personal running and advice site: “Jim2’s Running Page”.

Respected running coach Bob Glover addresses the “Masters Runner” specifically in his books, “The Runner’s Handbook” and “The Competitive Runner’s Handbook”. Both books are very extensive and excellent training guides.

“The Runner’s Handbook” was originally published in 1978 and updated in 1985 and 1996. I have the 1996 edition. It covers mostly fundamental stuff, but over a wide range of running and running-related topics and is mostly oriented to the basic beginning runner and those running primarily for fitness and recreation.

It touches very briefly on training for racing (60 pages) and an introduction to speed training (10 pages). It does include a “Masters Runner” chapter that is mostly oriented to the beginning masters runner, but has a lot of fundamental stuff that applies to masters runners of all levels.
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