Mastering Running

Cathy Utzschneider

• Publisher: Human Kinetics
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781450459723
• eBook ISBN: 9781492584667
• Edition: 1

Mastering Running, regardless of your age, optimal performance and new personal bests await.

Cathy Utzschneider, highly accomplished and renowned masters runner and coach, has created the definitive guide for runners, athletes, and fitness buffs. Runners from 30 to 100 will benefit from the targeted approach that covers these aspects:

• Evaluating and refining running form to improve speed and endurance

• Exercises, stretches, and routines to prevent common age-related injuries

• Training programs for the mile, 5K, 10K, half marathon, and full marathon

• Proven strategies, used by today’s top runners, that shave seconds off your time

Mastering Running contains all the advice and instruction you’d expect from an elite-level coach. With details on segmenting, front running, tapering, recovering, and fueling, Mastering Running is the one guide you’ll rely on time and again for a lifetime of serious running.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Mastering Running
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: The Masters Runner
• Chapter 1: Masters Running: The Never-Ending Pursuit
• Chapter 2: Understanding Running and Aging
• Chapter 3: Meeting the Challenge of Aging
• Chapter 4: Biomechanics of Good Form
• Chapter 5: Warding Off Injuries
• Chapter 6: Flexibility and Stretching
• Part II: Training
• Chapter 7: Goal Setting for Fitness and Competition
• Chapter 8: Getting Faster
• Chapter 9: Getting Stronger
• Part III: Event-Specific Training Programs
• Chapter 10: Back to Basics
• Chapter 11: Mile and 5K
• Chapter 12: 10K and Half Marathon
• Chapter 13: Marathon
• Part IV: Competing
• Chapter 14: Race Strategy
• Chapter 15: Beyond the Standard Events
• Appendix
• References
• About the Author