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Running Past Fifty: Advice and Inspiration for Senior Runners

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Running Past Fifty: Advice and Inspiration for Senior Runners
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Gail Waesche Kislevitz
Foreword by Amby Burfoot
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreMarathon and cross-country running
ISBN/Barcode 9781510736290
ClassificationsDewey:613.71720846
Audience
General
Illustrations Color photos throughout

Publishing Details

Publisher Skyhorse Publishing
Imprint Skyhorse Publishing
Publication Date 25 October 2018
Publication Country United States

Description

How to stay motivated and keep running for the rest of your life Baby boomer may be slower than they once were, but they show no signs of slowing down. Inspiring and insightful, here is the perfect read for every one of them. Lifelong runner Gail Waesche Kislevitz provides tips and motivation from 36 runners aged fifty or older. Running brings joy and health benefits to all participants, especially those of the baby boomer generation. But when legs get sore, joints feel achy, and old age creeps up, sometimes senior runners need a little extra motivation to get out of the door and on the road. Presenting time-tested recommendations, Kislevitz interviews some of the nation's greatest senior runners. Included here are exclusive interviews with greats such as Ed Whitlock, who, at the age of eighty-five, set an age-division world record of 3:56 in the marathon; Bill Rodgers, winner of four Boston Marathons and four New York City Marathons; George Hirsch, chairman of New York Road Runners; Olympian and author Jeff Galloway; world record holder Sid Howard; and runner and women's pioneer runner and advocate Kathrine Switzer And legendary runners aren't the only ones running well into seniority. Kislevitz also offers motivational stories from average runners who hit the pavement frequently and refuse to let their age stop them from competing regularly. "All the inspirational runners chronicled in this book have completely different stories and personalities, and yet we all share much. We also like to hang out together to talk about our training, our racing, our challenges, our sore muscles, and our future goals."-Amby Burfoot from his Foreword

Author Biography

Gail Waesche Kislevitz is an award-winning journalist and the author of six books on running and sports. She was a columnist for Runner's World for fifteen years and her freelance work has appeared in Shape, Marathon and Beyond, and New York Runner. A longtime employee of New York Road Runners, she is a coach for their marathon charity team, Team for Kids. Kislevitz has run twenty-six marathons, and has competed in triathlons, including a Half Ironman. In 2006, she was awarded the RRCA Journalist Excellence Sportswriter Award. Kislevitz lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Amby Burfoot won the Boston Marathon in 1968 and joined Runner's World ten years later. He became executive editor in 1985, and he held the position for twenty years before retiring in 2013. Amby has run 110,000 miles in his lifetime and owns the US's longest active "race road streak," having completed the Thanksgiving Day 5-mile run in Manchester, Connecticut, fifty-five years in a row. Currently a writer at-large for Runner's World, he has been honored by numerous running organizations both as an athlete and as a writer. Now in his early seventies, he continues running up to thirty miles a week.