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In RUN FOREVER, Boston Marathon winner and former Runners World editor-in-chief Amby Burfoot shares practical advice and wisdom on how to run with greater joy and health for an entire lifetime.
Everyone learns how to run at an early age. Its naturally wired into your body. Yet in recent years, running has become complicated by trendy gadgets and doctrine. With a Boston Marathon win and over 100,000 miles run on his resume, Amby Burfoot steers the sport back to its simple roots in RUN FOREVER. From a warm and welcoming perspective, Burfoot provides clear, actionable guidance to runners of every age and ability level.
Whether you are a beginner runner or experienced marathoner, RUN FOREVER will show you how to motivate yourself, avoid injuries, increase speed and endurance, and reach your goals. Best of all, youll enjoy optimal health throughout your life.

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The information herein is not intended to replace the services of trained health professionals or be a substitute for medical advice. You are advised to consult with your health care professional with regard to matters relating to your health, and in particular regarding matters that may require diagnosis or medical attention.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2017959218

ISBN: 978-1-5460-8311-5 (hardcover), 978-1-5460-8313-9 (ebook)

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This book is dedicated to all my running teachers and mentors, particularly John J. Kelley. And also to the many great athletes, coaches, and scientists who have shared their running knowledge with me through the last fifty-plus years.

Running is the simplest of sports. It deserves a simple book. Thats why I wrote Run Forever.

In the last twenty-five years, running has grown massively popular and increasingly complex. There are too many shoes, drinks, energy bars, training plans, stretching devices, massage tools, and books willing to dissect and discuss all of them.

Im here to say the opposite: running is not complicated. Run Forever doesnt attempt to explain everything there is to know about running. It explains only what you need to know. It drills down to the essentials.

Ive organized Run Forever in a clear and easy-to-follow manner. There are just six main sections: Getting Started, Nutrition for Runners, Going Farther, Dealing with Injuries, Getting Faster, and Running Forever. Even though it contains a training plan for half marathons and marathons, which some might consider the ultimate running challenges, Going Farther precedes Getting Faster. Both require consistency and determination. But Getting Faster is the harder of the two, because it also demands specialized workouts and true grit.

Each section contains ten to twelve chaplets, as I call them. These provide short, concise summaries of key information, and conclude with at least three direct actions to follow.

Everything youll read on these pages has emerged from my half century of running experience, the testimony of the worlds best runners and coaches, and the scientific conclusions of top running researchers.

At the personal level, Ive road tested every piece of advice in Run Forever. Over the last fifty-five years, Ive run 110,000 milesmore than enough to make lots of mistakes (bad for me) and figure out better ways (good for you).

Once I was fast. I was fortunate enough to win the Boston Marathon in 1968, and to run a 2:14 that year. Now Im slow. Im a happy member of the back of the pack gang. And Im proud to be there.

Ive finished the same Thanksgiving Day 5-miler fifty-five years in a row. A few days after this book is due to be published, I hope to complete the Boston Marathon on the fiftieth anniversary of my win in 1968. Along the way Ive run marathons with Will Ferrell and Oprah Winfrey. If they can do itand both did, finishing their races impressivelyso can you.

Many friends helped me write this book. In four decades of work at Runners World magazine, I had long discussions with hundreds of elite runners: Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, Kathrine Switzer, Grete Waitz, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Deena Kastor, Meb Keflezighi, Ryan Hall, Shalane Flanagan, and more. Their wisdom and insight is woven throughout Run Forever.

I also have a consuming interest in sports science, and have interviewed many of the leading lights of the last half centuryKen Cooper, David Costill, Ralph Paffenbarger, James Fries, Jack Daniels, Tim Noakes, Steven Blair, and more. Their evidence-based findings underlie the most important concepts in Run Forever.

My high school coach and mentor John J. Kelley, winner of the 1957 Boston Marathon, played a bigger role than all others combined. Not because he compiled a lengthy list of running rules, but because he lived true. He taught me that ones actions, philosophy, and guiding principlesthe simple, big-picture stuffare far more important than the day-to-day minutiae. I try to remember this lesson every day, and to live by it.

Certain themes return frequently in Run Forever. Thats because they are so central to healthy running. One of these is a practice I call adaptive excellence.

I believe we should always aim high, but appropriately. Today it takes me two hours longer to finish the Boston Marathon than it once did. But Im still moving along. To every thing there is a seasona time to run fast, and a time to run slow and relaxed. But we must continue to pursue excellence, even as we adapt to new circumstances.

Other themes: Listen to your body. Less is sometimes more. Hills are good for you. Recovery is a necessary part of peak performance. Run-walk builds fitness many different ways. Patience and consistency are eternal virtues.

In my twenty years as executive editor of Runners World magazine, we regularly asked readers how long they planned to continue running. The response was nearly always the same: 99 percent said they wanted to run for the rest of their lives.

Thats my goal too. And I bet its also yours. Ultimately, its the main subject of Run Forever.

Running doesnt get easier with age, but the payoffs grow greater. While none of us can know for sure that running will add years to our life, theres no doubt it will add life to our years. Which is far more rewarding.

The most important aspect of Run Forever is its emphasis on the mind. The book begins with a Brain Training chaplet and ends with one. Thats because I believe running is not so much a physical challenge as a cognitive one. Running doesnt depend on the size of your heart, the length of your legs, or the cholesterol content of your blood. They are entirely secondary. Your brain rules all.

You dont need to do twenty-five squats today to build your quad muscles. You need to think five positive thoughts about your motivations for running, fitness, and lifelong health. Because its not the quads that will get your legs moving, its the thoughts.

Life is not a part-time sport. Its a full-time challenge. President Teddy Roosevelt said, The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly. Few would disagree with this view.

No one wins every race, but we are the better for engaging. If we sit on the sidelines, we can only wither away.

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