Bob Glover - The Runners Handbook: The Bestselling Classic Fitness G for Intermediate Runners

BOB GLOVER is founder and president of Robert H. Glover and Associates, Inc., a sports and fitness consulting firm. Since he founded the program in 1978, Glover has directed the running classes for the 32,000-member New York Road Runners Club. More than 2,000 students participate each year in these classes at the beginner, advanced beginner, intermediate, basic competitive, competitive, and advanced competitive levels. Glover also directs the training clinics for the New York City Marathon. His Official New York City Marathon Training Program is followed annually by thousands of runners. Each year since its founding in 1990, Glover has directed over 1,000 boys and girls aged five to fourteen in the City-Sports-For-Kids track-and-field program sponsored by the New York Road Runners Club and the Asphalt Green. A high school (Dansville, NY) county champion at 2 miles and a three-time gold medalist at the Hue Sports Festival during the Vietnam War, he has competed for more than thirty years at distances ranging from the quarter-mile to the 50-mile ultra-marathon, and has completed over thirty marathons. He now places frequently in local races as a masters runner competing for the Westchester Track Club. Glover has coached three women athletes to U.S. top ten rankings in the marathon event, and has coached his running teams to several national titles at a variety of distances in both the open and masters categories. With more than twenty years experience coaching all levels of runners, he gains his greatest satisfaction helping beginner runners, beginner racers, and beginner marathoners increase their enjoyment of the sport. More than 50,000 runners have participated in his classes and nearly a million runners have followed his training program in his books since The Runners Handbook was first published and became an immediate national best-seller in 1978. He and his wife, Shelly-lynn, live in North Tarrytown, New York, where they love to run together along wooded trails. They often win awards together in couples races.

JACK SHEPHERD is the author of nine books, including the national best-sellers The Adams Chronicles , and (co-authored with Bob Glover) The Runners Handbook . Shepherd graduated from Haverford College and Columbia University and, twenty-five years later, earned his Ph.D. at Boston University. He began his career as an international journalist and has covered assignments in forty-eight of the fifty states, in the Far East, Europe, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. Following this, Shepherd became a foreign policy specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. After receiving his doctorate, Shepherd taught at Dartmouth College for five years. He now directs an international program at the University of Cambridge, England, where he also teaches in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. In December 1975, after returning from an assignment in East Africa, Shepherd joined Bob Glovers running class which, he quickly realized, deserved to be the subject of this book. Shepherd not only survived the beginners program, he also graduated to become a convinced lifetime intermediate runner who has completed two New York City Marathons. Shepherd and his wife, Kathleen, currently live in Cambridge, but they maintain a permanent home in Norwich, Vermont, where they enjoy running, hiking, rowing, and cross-country skiing for fitness. To commemorate his twenty years of running under Bob Glovers care and influence, in 1995 Shepherd began training for the Coast-to-Coast hike across England. He is using his running and weight-training as a form of cross-training to condition him for this difficult trek.

SHELLY-LYNN FLORENCE GLOVER is an exercise physiologist with a masters degree from Columbia University as well as certification as a fitness professional from the American Council on Exercise and Marymount Manhattan College. She has an undergraduate degree in journalism. As a researcher, she has been active in several studies involving runners. Her work involving critical velocity as a means of predicting marathon times was accepted for publication and was presented at the 1995 American College of Sports Medicine Conference in Minneapolis. As an athlete, she was the captain of her high school (Canisteo, NY) soccer team and a member of her colleges first womens cross-country team. As a veteran of twenty years of racing, she competes for the Westchester Track Club and frequently wins awards in local races ranging in distance from 5K to the marathon. She is founder and president of Great Strides, a personal trainer consulting firm. She also founded and coaches Mercury Mastersa running team for athletes who are over the age of fifty. As program director for Glover and Associates, she coaches with the New York Road Runners Clubs City-Sports-For-Kids youth track program and running classes, where she directs the beginner-and intermediate-level runners who are the focus of this book.

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