Other Resources
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www.runnersworld.com
www.chsaa.org
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Running Books
Non-Fiction
A Cold Clear Day: The Athletic Biography of Buddy Edelen
~Frank Murphy
The Athlete’s Body
~Ken Sprague
The Athlete Within: A Personal Guide to Total Fitness
~Harvey B. Simon, M.D. and Steven R. Levisohn, M.D.
A Beginner’s Guide to Long Distance Running
~Sean Fishpool
Bannister and Beyond
~Jim Denison
The Boston Marathon
~Tom Derderian
The Competitive Runner’s Handbook
~Bob Glover and Shelly-lynn Florence Glover
The Courage to Start
~John “The Penguin” Bingham
Daniels’ Running Formula
~Jack Daniels, Ph.D.
Distance Training for Young Athletes
~Arthur Lydiard and Garth Gilmour
Dr. Sheehan on Running
~George Sheehan, M.D.
The Elements of Effort
~John Jerome
Finding Their Stride: A Team of Young Runners and Their Season of Triumph
~Sally Pont
The Four Minute Mile
~Roger Bannister
Galloway’s Book on Running
~Jeff Galloway
Hills, Hawgs, and Ho Chi Minh
~Don Kardong
The Hurdles: Contemporary Theory, Technique and Training
~Jess Jarver, ed.
I Run, Therefore I am---NUTS
~Bob Schwartz
Jesse Owens: A&E Biography
~Tom Streissguth
Long Distances: Contemporary Theory, Technique and Training
~Jess Jarver, ed.
The Long Green Line: Championship High School Cross Country
~Joe Newton
Love of Running
~Tim Noakes, M.D.
Mind Gym: An Athletes Guide To Inner Excellence
~Gary Mack and David Casstevens
No Finish Line: My Life As I See It
~Maria Runyan
Olympic Dreams: 100 Years of Excellence
~Douglas Collins
Optimal Muscle Recovery
~Edmund R. Burke, Ph.D.
Peak When It Counts: Periodization For American Track and Field
~William H. Freeman
A Picture Book of Jesse Owens
~David A. Adler, illustrated by Robert Casilla
Pre: The Story of America’s Greatest Running Legend
~Tom Jordan
The Principles of Running
~Amby Burfoot
Pure Gold ( Eric Liddel Biography)
~David McCarland
The Quotable Runner
~Mark Will-Weber, ed.
Racing the Antelope
~Bernd Heinrich
Run With The Best
~Tony Benson and Irv Ray
Run With The Champions
~Marc Bloom
The Runner’s Book of Daily Inspirations
~Kevin Nelson
Running Colorado’s Front Range
~Brian Metzler
The Runner’s Guide To The Meaning Of Life
~Amby Burfoot
The Runner’s Literary Companion
~Garth Battista, ed.
Running: The Athlete Within
~David Costill & Scott Trappe
Running The Spiritual Path
~Roger D. Joslin
Running To The Top
~Arthur Lydiard
Running Tough
~Michael Sandrock
Running With The Buffalos
~Chris Lear
Running Within
~Jerry Lynch & Warren Scott
Serious Training For Endurance Athletes
~Rob Sleamaker and Ray Browning
The Silence of Great Distance: Women Running Long
~Frank Murphy
Steve Scott: The Miler
~Marc Bloom
Stretching For All Sports
~John E. Beaulieu
Sub4:00: Alan Webb and the Quest for the Fastest Mile
~Chris Lear
SyberVision: Muscle Memory Programming For Every Sport
~Steven DeVore, Greggory R. DeVore, M.D. and Mike Michaelson
To The Edge
~Kirk Johnson
Track and Field Athletics
~George T. Bresnahan, W.W. Tuttle, Ph.D., Francis X. Cretzmeyer
Track and Field Omnibook
~Ken Doherty
Trail Runner’s Guide to Colorado: 50 Great Trail Runs
~ Phil Mislinski, Monique Cole, Scott Boulbol
Training for Young Distance Runners
~Larry Greene and Russ Pate
Winning Running
~Peter Coe
Women Runners
~Irene Reti and Bettianne Shoney Sien, eds.
The Young Track and Field Athlete: A Young Enthusiast’s Guide To Track and Field Athletics (DK)
~Colin Jackson
Fiction
Again To Carthage
~John L. Parker, Jr.
Flanagan’s Run
~Tom McNab
In The Language of Loons
~Natile Kinsey- Warnock
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
~Alan Sillitoe
Life At These Speeds
~Jeremy Jackson
Once A Runner
~John L. Parker Jr.
Video
16 Days of Glory: The 1984 Summer Olympics
~VHS
100 Years of Olympic Glory
~VHS
Across The Tracks
~VHS
Bill Rodgers: Running for Fun and Fitness
~VHS
Chariots of Fire
~VHS and DVD
Endurance
~VHS
Five Thousand Meters
~DVD
The Four Minute Mile
~VHS
Fire On The Track
~VHS
The Jericho Mile
~VHS
The Jesse Owens Story
~VHS
Jim Fixx On Running
~Laser Videodisc
Jim Thorpe: All American
~VHS
The Loneliness of the Long Distance runner
~VHS
Olympic Track & Field- Men: 1988 Seoul
~VHS
Olympic Track 7 Field – Women: 1988 Seoul
~VHS
On The Edge
~VHS
Prefontaine
~VHS
Running Brave
~VHS
Without Limits
~VHS and DVD
Music
Endurance: Original Motion Picture soundtrack
~CD
Coaching Resources
Big Red Book
~Editors of Track & Field News
Coaching Cross- Country Successfully
~Joe Newton
Coaching Mental Excellence
~Ralph Vernacchia, Ph. D., Rick McGuire, Ph.D., David Cook, Ph.D.
Meet Director’s Handbook: For the Organization & Administration Of An
Invitational Cross Country Meet
~K. Scott Kutz
Modern Sports Officiating
~Richard Clegg, William A. Thompson
Positive Coaching
~Jim Thompson
In Pursuit of Excellence
~Terry Orlick, Ph.D.
Track and Field Coach’s Survival Guide
~ Edward L. Wallace, Jr.
Track and Field Coaching Manual (The Athletic Congress’s)
~Vern Gambetta, ed.
Training Games
~Eric Anderson
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Quotes
Think big, believe big, act big and the results will be big.
- Anonymous
So much of life passes without our being in it at all. Make every day count.
-George Sheehan
Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts.
-Steve Prefontaine
What I have lost I can afford to lose. What I have gained is something I cannot do without.
-George Sheehan
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
—Michael Jordan
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
—John Wooden
If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.
—Herschel Walker
The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.
—George Shultz
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
—A J Kitt
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
—Archie Griffen, two-time Heisman winner ( 5’9’’)
There’s no substitute for guts.
—Paul “Bear” Bryant
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others willing to let them.
—Robert Frost
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
—Will Rogers
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
—Samuel Johnson
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
—Ray Knight
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
—Gale Sayers
It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it’s what you put into the practice.
—Eric Lindros
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
—Jean-Claude Killy
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.
—Mark Twain
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
—Amelia Earhart
Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.
—Lou Brock
If at first you don’t succeed, you are running about average.
—M.H. Alderson
There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or you’re OUT. There’s no such thing as life in-between.
—Pat Riley
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
—John Wooden
Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
—Chuck Noll, ex-Pittsburgh Steelers Coach
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
—Vincent T. Lombardi
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
—Robert F. Kennedy
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.
—Dennis Waitley
The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves.
—Anonymous
You learn you can do your best even when it’s hard, even when you’re tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.
—Joe Namath
Winning isn’t everything, wanting to is.
—Anonymous
If you don’t do what’s best for your body, you’re the one who comes up on the short end.
—Julius Erving
If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your performance, or just finish the race—it’s up to you.
—Dave Scott, Triathlete
Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.
-George Sheehan
Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
-George Sheehan
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
-George Sheehan
If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.
-George Sheehan
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
-George Sheehan
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
-George Sheehan
We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
-George Sheehan
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