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Run Forever: Your Complete Guide to Healthy Lifetime Running

Amby Burfoot · Center Street
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

In RUN FOREVER, Boston Marathon winner and former Runner's World editor-in-chief Amby Burfoot shares practical advice and wisdom on how to run with greater joy and health for an entire lifetime.Everyone learns how to run at an early age. It's naturally wired into your body. Yet in recent...
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Getting to Us: How Great Coaches Make Great Teams

Seth Davis · Penguin Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In Search of Excellence for coaching, from the acclaimed CBS Sports commentator and author of the definitive biography of John Wooden What makes a coach great? How do great coaches turn a collection of individuals into a coherent "us"? Seth Davis, one of the keenest minds in sports...
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Swimming Drill Book 2nd Edition, The

RUBEN GUZMAN · HUMAN KINETICS
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Technique is critical in swimming performance. In the pool or open water, coaches and athletes alike know that efficiency in entering the water and in moving through it equates to milliseconds of improvement--milliseconds that make all the difference in a competition. That's where...
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Young Runners at the Top: A Training, Racing, and Lifestyle Guide for Competitors and Coaches

Brad Hudson · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 156
Format: Hardcover

In today's hyper-competitive world, young athletes are often pushed to compete and pressured to succeed to the point of burnout. It doesn't have to be that way, though, because many young runners genuinely enjoy training and racing. But in order to train and compete intelligently...
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Golden Days: West's Lakers, Steph's Warriors, and the California Dreamers Who Reinvented Basketball

JACK MCCALLUM · Ballantine Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Dream Team tells the interconnected stories of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors and the early-1970s Los Angeles Lakers, two extraordinary teams playing in extraordinary times and linked by one extraordinary man: Jerry West. During their 1971-72 championship...
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Jail Blazers: How the Portland Trail Blazers Became the Bad Boys of Basketball

Kerry Eggers · Sports Publishing
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

In the late '90s and early 2000s, the Portland Trail Blazers were one of the hottest teams in the NBA. For almost a decade, they won 60 percent of their games while making it to the Western Conference Finals twice. However, what happened off-court was just as unforgettable as what they...
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Arthur Ashe: A Life

RAYMOND ARSENAULT · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover

The first comprehensive, authoritative biography of American icon Arthur Ashe - the Jackie Robinson of men's tennis - a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual.Born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1943,...
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How to Lose a Marathon: A Starter's Guide to Finishing in 26.2 Chapters

Joel Cohen · Abrams Image
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

In How to Lose a Marathon, Joel Cohen takes readers on a step-by-step journey from being a couch potato to being a couch potato who can finish a marathon. Through a hilarious combination of running tips, narrative, illustrations and infographics, Cohen breaks down the misery that is forcing...
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The Fair Chase: The Epic Story of Hunting in America

PHILIP DRAY · Basic Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning historian tells the story of hunting in America, showing how this sport has shaped our national identity.From Daniel Boone to Teddy Roosevelt, hunting is one of America's most sacred-but also most fraught-traditions. It was promoted in the 19th century as a way to reconnect...
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Slow Your Roll: Mindfulness for Fast Times

Greg Graber · Hawkeye Publishers
Pages: 204
Format: Hardcover

To get the most out of life, especially in these fast times, you need to Slow Your Roll. Mindfulness coach Greg Graber shares his practical, no-nonsense techniques for mindful living. He has worked with people from all walks of life (from NBA coaches to soccer moms) , and this book is as helpful...
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Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

DEENA KASTOR · Crown Archetype
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From an Olympic medalist runner and the record-holder in the women's marathon and half-marathon, a lyrical, inspirational memoir on how harnessing the power of the mind can unlock hidden potentialDeena Kastor was a star youth runner with tremendous promise, yet her career almost ended after...
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No barriers : a blind man's journey to kayak the Grand Canyon

Erik Weihenmayer · Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
Format: Library Binding

After Erik Weihenmayer became the first and only blind person to summit Mount Everest, his expedition leader slapped him on the back and said "Don't make Everest the greatest thing you ever do." No Barriers is the moving story of Erik's response to that challenge.
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A Prepper's Guide to Rifles: How to Properly Choose, Maintain, and Use These Firearms in Emergency Situations

R K Campbell · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback

Know which rifles can defend you and your family.In the chaos of a survival situation, firearms will be important tools for protecting yourself, your family, and your supplies as well as for hunting animals for food. In A Prepper's Guide to Rifles, Robert K. Campbell discusses the best...
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The Camper Book: A Celebration of a Moveable American Dream

Dave Hoekstra · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

The Camper Book will captivate all those who dream of waving good-bye to the rat race from the window of their own moveable home, be it a camper, RV, travel trailer, camper van, or tiny camper. Not just for placid retirees anymore, camper culture has sprung up among simplicity-seeking millennials,...
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King of Strong Style: 1980-2014

Shinsuke Nakamura · VIZ Media LLC
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover

The life of the internationally famous professional wrestler Shinsuke Nakamura, from his childhood to the International Wrestling Grand Prix championship, and beyond!Before he became a star of American professional wrestling, Shinsuke Nakamura was Japan's "King of Strong Style."...
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