Alberto Salazar's Guide to Running

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Running 101. Running for Fun and Fitness

1. Welcome to the New Era of Running

2. Running for the Decades: A Conservative Program for Lifestyle Running

3. The Running Life

4. Equipping Yourself

5. Running Form

6. Stretching

7. Weight Training and Cross-Training

8. Achieving and Maintaining Healthy Body Weight

9. Aches and Pains

Running 201. Expanding Your Horizons

10. Challenges and Adventures

11. Race Training

12. Race Day

Index

Alberto Salazar burst onto the American and world marathon scene with a victory in the 1980 New York City Marathon. During his running career, he set one world record and six U.S. records in various distances. He broke long-standing marathon records in New York in 1981 and Boston in 1982, and won the New York event three years in a row. After a hiatus lasting more than a decade, he made a comeback in 1995, when he won the 53.75-mile Comrades Ultramarathon in South Africa.

Richard A. Lovett, Ph.D., is an avid runner and veteran of numerous marathons. A former law professor, he is now a full-time writer.