Learning to Walk: How walk breaks added miles to my runs and years to my running - Couverture souple

Henderson, Joe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1480145718 ISBN 13 : 9781480145719

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

(from the Foreword, titled “Walking Lessons”) Walking lessons? You might think these are as unnecessary as eating or breathing lessons. Isn’t walking a skill we learn around the age of one, pretty much master by two and then never forget.Not really. Children don’t suddenly stand up and walk. Their first steps are lunging runs into the arms of waiting parents. They don’t slow down much until their teenaged years, then soon get a driver’s license and thereafter limit their walking to crossing parking lots or trekking home when the car breaks down.A few of us keep running after learning to drive. I was among those lucky ones that way. However, more than 20 years passed between my first formal race and my return to walking. I took that long to adopt walk breaks as good and necessary additions to what remains today a running-centered routine.I also freely confess that little more than half of the “run” time nowadays is spent running. Walk breaks come often, and some days pure walks replace runs. Pure runs are as rare as lunar eclipses.Walking hasn’t replaced my running but has added to it. Walk breaks, the simplest and best type of cross-training, have extended my life as a runner. I happily stop to walk if it keeps me running longer – if not in miles, then in years.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joe Henderson was for more than 30 years a columnist and editor at Runner's World magazine, and he has published more than 30 books. He's a veteran of more than 700 races, from sprints to ultras. He has taught running classes at the University of Oregon in Eugene, and he coaches a local marathon team. His columns appear on the Facebook group page "Joe Henderson's Writings."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1480145718
• ISBN 13: 9781480145719
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 99
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg