Mindful Running

Name: Mindful Running
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SKU: 9781472944863
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How Meditative Running can Improve Performance and Make you a Happier, More Fulfilled Person

By Mackenzie L. Havey

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Mindful Running by Mackenzie L. Havey explores how mindfulness can transform the experience and performance of running. Combining scientific research, expert insights, and contributions from elite athletes, the book offers a mental fitness training approach that deepens the mind-body connection. Designed for both competitive and everyday runners, it emphasises self-awareness, concentration, and endurance, showing how these can enhance running and overall well-being. The guide also highlights how mindful running can help cope with life's challenges and find joy in daily moments.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Mindful Running suits runners of all levels seeking to enhance their mental and physical approach to the sport. It's ideal for those interested in the intersection of mindfulness and athletic performance, as well as anyone looking to improve endurance, focus, and emotional well-being through running.

Written by a highly respected fitness journalist, Mindful Running offers an engaging guide to how mindfulness can both optimize your runs and improve general health and well-being.

Written by a highly respected fitness journalist, Mindful Running offers an engaging and highly practical guide to how mindfulness can both optimise sporting performance and improve overall health and well-being.

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'A must-read for anyone looking to improve performance and add richer meaning to the sport, activity and art of running.' Dean Karnazes, ultra-marathoner and New York Times bestselling author

Discover how mindfulness can enhance your running and make you a happier, more fulfilled person. By applying mental fitness training to your running regime, you tap into a powerful mind-body connection that not only optimises sporting performance, but also boosts happiness both on and off the running trails.

Mindful Running brings together scientific research, expert analysis, and elite athlete contributions to reveal how relating to your mind, body, and surroundings in a new way can help you run longer and faster, as well as offer a boost to your overall mental, emotional, and physical health.

Devised with both the competitive and everyday runner in mind, Mackenzie L. Havey introduces an innovative, approachable, and authoritative guide designed to increase self-awareness, develop concentration, and improve endurance. Not only does this have the potential to translate into better running, it can also play a role in training you to endure life's challenges with greater ease and find joy in all things big and small.

Mindful Running is a total body and mind fitness regime.

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Praised by ultra-marathoner Dean Karnazes as "a must-read" for improving performance and enriching running, the book has been commended for encouraging presence in both running and everyday life (Scott Douglas, Runner’s World). Readers and experts alike highlight its life-changing impact and therapeutic value (Huffington Post), while Olympic medallist Deena Kastor calls it a bridge to unlocking full potential. Leading mindfulness instructor Terry Pearson found it captivating from the start. It was shortlisted for Running Book of the Year 2017.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781472944863

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 December 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Sport

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 180g

Pages: 208

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Coaching & Motivation Happiness & Mental Health Mackenzie L. Havey Mindset & Self Help Motivation & Inspiration Non-Fiction Personal Development Philosophy & Psychology Running & Athletics Self-Help & Personal Development Sports

About the Author

Mackenzie L. Havey writes about endurance sports, mind/body health and wellness and adventure travel. Her work has appeared in Runner’s World, SELF, Triathlete, TheAtlantic.com, ESPN.com, OutsideOnline.com and elsewhere. In addition to completing 14 marathons and an Ironman triathlon, she is a USA Track & Field-certified coach, an instructor in the Physical Activity Program in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Minnesota and has completed training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. She studied English at the College of St. Benedict and has a master’s in kinesiology with an emphasis in sport and exercise psychology from the University of Minnesota. She lives with her husband, daughter and vizsla pup in Minneapolis, Minnesota. @mackenziehavey