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Run Your First Marathon

Everything You Need to Know to Reach the Finish Line
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Run Your First Marathon by Grete Waitz, nine-time New York City Marathon winner, delivers a comprehensive sixteen-week training programme designed for beginners. It addresses common concerns such as age, fitness levels, motivation, and mental resilience, providing guidance on preparation, nutrition, hydration, and overcoming obstacles to enable runners to complete their first marathon.
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This book is ideal for novice runners who aspire to complete their first marathon but may feel intimidated by the challenge, as well as for those seeking structured training and motivational support.

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Run Your First Marathon , Waitz offers: A sixteen-week training program that has been proven successful time and time again Methods for physically and mentally preparing to start and finish a marathon Helpful tips regarding equipment, nutrition, and hydration Guidance to help overcome motivational and physical roadblocks And much more!

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Do you consider yourself too old or out of shape to run a marathon? Do you fear that you lack the conditioning, motivation, or emotional strength to finish? If so, Grete Waitz, nine-time winner of the New York City Marathon, has a program for you that has proven to help would-be racers do what they thought was impossible: complete their first marathon.

In this updated and revised third edition of Run Your First Marathon, Waitz offers:

A sixteen-week training program that has been proven successful time and time again

Methods for physically and mentally preparing to start and finish a marathon

Helpful tips regarding equipment, nutrition, and hydration

Guidance to help overcome motivational and physical roadblocks

And much more!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781632203564

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 April 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing

Illustration: 60 color photos

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Deena Kastor

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 235.0mm

Height: 187.0mm

Weight: 683g

Pages: 180

About the Author

Grete Waitz (19532011) is widely regarded as one of history's greatest marathoners. She won the New York City Marathon a record nine times.
Gloria Averbuch is a competitive runner and the author of The New York Road Runners Club Complete Book of Running & Fitness.

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