Running Sports

Laufen war in der Kindheit des Autors nie ein Thema. Doch erst viel später entdeckte er seine Leidenschaft für den Laufsport, der ihn zu faszinierenden Laufveranstaltungen führte. Ob über die Straßen von Köln, die Hafenpromenade in Hamburg, die pulsierenden Wege Berlins oder die legendären Strecken in New York — er hat unvergessliche Momente erlebt. Auch einzigartige Herausforderungen wie Läufe unter Tage und im Trailbereich haben seine Begeisterung für das Laufen noch verstärkt. Von seinen Anfängen bis zum Halbmarathon teilt er seine Erlebnisse und Erfahrungen.

How would you like a fitness and weight-loss plan that's easy to start, fun to do, personal to you, and is guaranteed to give you real fitness results that will change your life forever? What if you could finally achieve long-term weight loss or other fitness goals? What if you could easily implement mindset tricks, small diet tweaks, and quick exercise routines to enhance your whole lifestyle? Imagine making small, simple, positive changes to your lifestyle that will have a huge impact and last forever!

Suffering from depression but desperate for 'normality', Rachel Cullen found herself in failing relationships, the wrong career and a reliance on alcohol and chocolate to get her through each day. Stuck in an endless cycle of mental misery, she put on a pair of old trainers. She'd never been able to think of herself as a 'runner' before, and the first time she forced herself out the door, she knew it would hurt. Everywhere. She just didn't realise how much it would heal her, too.

A man takes on the challenge of a lifetime after hitting rock bottom. He finds himself divorced, unemployed, and in a deep depression when a degenerative eye condition renders him blind with limited light perception. Feeling a calling to run across America, he dedicated the next two years of his life to prepare for, and ultimately run, more than 3,000 miles from California to New York in less than 60 days, averaging 51.5 miles per day, to log the seventh-fastest transcontinental foot crossing in the history of the world.

Maratón es un libro intenso, íntimo y original con el que recorrerás la Ciudad de México, París, Papantla, Houston y Roma. Visitarás el corazón de la más emblemática competencia del atletismo y, entre euforia, frustración, búsqueda, música y revancha, correrás 42 kilómetros de aprendizaje.

This is an audiobook that contains two books with various tips about different topics related to sports, such as the distinction between a professional sports player and an ace athlete, ways to interact with coaches, trainers, and mentors, reaching your true potential by conditioning your brain to achieve success, and overcoming weakness and ego by embracing the entire sport and its history.

There are people who run occasionally or run as part of another sport, and there are people who need to run for their mental wellbeing. Tom Raffio and Ellen Raffio address the latter group in Stories from the Starting Line. The couple, who met running, runs more than 100 races a year in New Hampshire and Northern New England and uses this depth of experience to write about the diverse runners they meet at races.

McDowell and Shea understand the various external and internal forces in everyday life that can unintentionally keep a wife—mother—working woman from lacing up her shoes and going for a run. Because the authors are multihyphenates themselves, Run Like a Mother is driven by their own running expertise and real-world experience in ensuring that running is part of their lives.

Philipp Pflieger war bei Olympia 2016 der schnellste deutsche Marathonläufer. Ein Jahr später sorgte er für Schlagzeilen, als er beim Berlin-Marathon seine Kräfte überschätzte und das Rennen orientierungslos abbrechen musste. Daraus hat er viel gelernt, nicht nur über die Königsdisziplin des Laufens, sondern auch über sich selbst. Sein nächstes Ziel: Olympia 2020 in Tokio. In seinem Hörbuch nimmt Pflieger uns mit hinter die Kulissen des professionellen Marathonlaufens. Er erzählt über die Faszination des Laufens, lässt uns Siege und Niederlagen miterleben, und gibt Tipps, was Amateure von den Profis lernen können.

Small-town beauty queen Jenny Fillmore is a survivor. In the wake of having been kidnapped by a madman, she's managed to put her life back together, complete with a successful career and a serious boyfriend. But, when her first love returns and hires her as his real estate agent, old wounds are torn open, making Jenny question whether or not she has the life she wants. It turns out broken hearts don't heal so easily and old desires don't always fade with time.

Is running something that you do a lot of? Are you considering doing an ultramarathon? Do you need some help to understand what it will involve? Whether you are already an ultramarathon runner or someone who is about to embark on the challenge, The Ultramarathon Guide: A Simple Approach to Running Your First Ultramarathon is an audiobook that can help you realize your dreams. In this audiobook, you will discover all you need to know about taking the first steps in this grueling challenge.

If you always feel out of breath when you go on a run and don't seem to make any progress, it might be because of your breathing and not your actual fitness. Your breath is key to your sporting performance and beyond, from affecting fatigue levels, recovery and sleep to connecting to your nervous system and combatting stress.

Sabrina Verjee is an ultrarunning phenomenon. In June 2021, on her fourth attempt, she became the first person to climb the Lake District’s 214 Wainwright hills in under six days, running 325 miles with a colossal 36,000 meters of ascent. Where There’s a Hill tells the story of an outsider who was never picked for a school sports team yet went on to become an accomplished modern pentathlete and adventure racer. After switching her focus to ultrarunning in her 30s, Sabrina moved to the Lake District, where she could hone her mountain-running skills on the local fells.

At the age of 50, Eddie Brocklesby decided to run her first half marathon. Until that point, she'd done little running, and her exercise regime consisted of little more than chauffeuring her children to their own sports clubs. In common with so many people, any interest she'd shown in sport in her childhood had diminished as her adult life progressed, with spare time becoming ever more limited in the face of work and family commitments. But the half marathon was the first of what was to become a hugely impressive trajectory of sporting accolades and successes.

If you had told Helen two years ago that she would be getting up at six a.m. on Sundays to swim in a freezing reservoir and spending her Saturday nights unshowered and covered in mud in a pub, she would have spat out her champagne. But when everyone around you starts settling down, what else is a glamorous party girl to do but to launch herself into the world of endurance sport?

Was ist das, was uns seit Jahren an- und umtreibt, das uns regelmäßig hinaustreibt aus der Geborgenheit unserer Behausungen. Was geht in uns vor, wenn wir laufen, was denken wir dabei und danach und darüber? Und was sagt das womöglich über uns aus und die Gesellschaft, in der wir leben.

Originell, faszinierend, abenteuerlich: Ein Journalist auf der Suche nach dem letzten Geheimnis des Sports. Seine Passion: Das Laufen, sein Beruf: Das Schreiben. Christopher McDougall suchte eine Antwort auf eine vermeintlich einfache Frage: Warum tut mir mein Fuß weh? Wie er sind Millionen von Hobbyläufern mindestens einmal im Jahr ernsthaft verletzt. Nach unzähligen Zyklen des Dauerschmerzes, der Kortisonspritzen und immer neuer Hightech-Sportschuhen stand McDougall kurz davor, zu kapitulieren und die Diagnose der Mediziner ein für alle Mal hinzunehmen: "Sie sind einfach nicht zum Laufen gemacht." Stattdessen hat sich der Journalist weit abseits der kostspieligen Empfehlungen von Ärzten und Ausrüstern auf eine abenteuerliche Reise zu den geheimnisvollsten und besten Läufern der Welt begeben.

After taking up running in his forties, Steve Morley became obsessed with the world of marathons and ultra-running. Going from non-runner to serious athlete, running had a profound and powerful effect on his life, health, and mind-set. But when a surprise heart attack struck in his fifties, the fate of Steve’s running hung in the balance. Through determination and perseverance, Steve went on to not only recover but also to leave his heart attack in the dust and achieved a personal best marathon time in his sixties.

Start Where You Are is a guide for women who are looking to run up to 5k distance. Whether you are at the start of your running journey, or resuming running after a break, Sabrina Pace-Humphreys has all the advice you need to get going. In 2009 a GP recommended Sabrina try running to manage her post-natal depression. It transformed her life and she hasn't stopped since. She is now a UK Athletics qualified Leader in Running Fitness, a Coach in Running Fitness and a qualified personal trainer with a passion for helping other women, wherever they are in their running journeys.

Harley Brennan and Shyla Hollings agreed to part company to follow their careers. It was a mutual decision. The star running back had no problem getting dates, but never the right dates. After one year spent trying to replace the only woman he’d ever loved, he declared defeat. Until the reality TV show Marriage Minded approached him.