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Lead Stories: Saturday, September 6, 2008

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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TFS News Briefs: 11/28/07

Posted November 28th, 2007 at 1:04 PM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Olympics, TFS News Briefs

Hayward Field Track “Fastest in the world”
Hayward Field, the site of next year’s Olympic Track & Field Trials, has a new track surface, one that has been “designed to be the fastest track surface in the world.” Some specs of the new Benyon BSS 2000 surface: “It features maximum return of energy and superior shock absorption, courtesy of a bio-engineered force reduction layer of butyl rubber and full-depth color polyurethane, which allows for daily training without stress injuries. The track is finished with a custom-made surface consisting of embedded Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer (EPDM) granules, which allow for advanced traction.”
Read more at: [Product Design & Development]

Mysteries of Trail and Track Etiquette Revealed
An article in the Tallahassee Democrat (FL) reveals some of the mysteries of track and trail etiquette. Apparently, running newbies have not learned some of the basics, such as jogging in the outside lanes so that faster runners can have the inside lanes for interval training. If you are new to running, this is a good primer. Read more at: [Tallahassee Democrat]

Excerpt from Again to Carthage, John L. Parker’s sequel to Once a Runner
Runner’s World is featuring an excerpt from Again to Carthage, the long-awaited (29 years) sequel to the classic track and field novel by John L. Parker, Jr., Once a Runner. Again to Carthage is now available in bookstores. Read more at: [Runner’s World 1][Runner’s World 2]
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