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Summary: A complete and wonderful book about running!
Review: This book is amazing! I am a beginning runner and read this book from cover to cover. It is EXTREMELY helpful! There are chapters that cover everything from selecting running shoes, evaluating running surfaces, running while pregnant, running during menopause, etc. My favorite item is a 10 week beginner's running schedule that lays out a very easy run/walk plan that culminates in the ability to run for 30 min (about a 5K). For you advanced runners, there are also schedules with much higher mileage, i.e. marathons or half-marathons.Kowalchik covers issues for all runners as well as issues specific to women. She also addresess topics such as nutrition, cross-training, and injury prevention. This book is ideal for the beginning to advanced runner. This book definitely helped and motivated me. Give it a try.
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Summary: My Running Bible!
Review: This book is EXCELLENT, I think I have read it cover to cover probably at least 3 times. It covers EVERYTHING you need to know about running, including nutrition, training, weight concerns, motivation, racing, and special women concerns such as pregnancy and menopause. I ran only a one short race when I recieved this book as a gift, and as I read it I became SO inspired that I decided to do a marathon! Through all my training, I think I referenced back to this book at least every other day, and the answer I was looking for was always there. Never in my life did I think I would EVER run 26 miles, but now thanks to this book and becoming so inspired, I can proudly say for the rest of my life "Once when I was 24 years old, I ran a marathon . . . "
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Summary: This is a great book!
Review: This book is great for runners of all levels. Kowalchik covers all sorts of issues pertinent to women runners, and intersperses motivational pages that have helped me get out of bed more than once for a morning run. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: This book is so inspiring!
Review: This book is really great! It's written well with so much information that is broken down in easy-to-understand chapters. It's exactly what I was looking for! I was a beginner at running, but not at exercising. This book is so informative and so inspiring. Whenever I have a question or concern, I always turn to The Complete Book of Running for Women... for answers. After 8 months of running, I feel more than ready to try my first 5K. Claire's book has so much information about racing that I feel ready and raring to go!
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Summary: This book is so inspiring!
Review: This book is really great! It's written well with so much information that is broken down in easy-to-understand chapters. It's exactly what I was looking for! I was a beginner at running, but not at exercising. This book is so informative and so inspiring. Whenever I have a question or concern, I always turn to The Complete Book of Running for Women... for answers. After 8 months of running, I feel more than ready to try my first 5K. Claire's book has so much information about racing that I feel ready and raring to go!
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Summary: It is EVERYTHING a women needs to hear--motivation and all!
Review: This book makes every woman feel as though they can achieve anything by giving the motivation to do everything. It not only gives the facts, but it gives reasons to run, how to run, where to run, everything you need to know about running, especially for a woman. It first gives you the health reasons to run and then gives you REAL reasons--to make yourself proud of your self. The book not only gives motivation, it gives you ways to keep up the motivation, and not get sick of the running, because we all know we can keep up with a schedule for a week and it is all over. But, this book makes it so its all over when YOU WANT it to be over--never! The book hits every point that a normal running book would, but it also hits every point a woman needs to hear. It is a great book. So, if you need motivation, reason, facts, and ways to achieve your goal, well, Get This Book.
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Summary: The Complete Book of Womens Running is a MUST READ!!
Review: This book will inspire ANYONE interested in the glorious and refreshing sport of running...the techniques and fine-tuning explained were just what I was looking for!! Thank you, Claire Kowalchik! And as the book suggests us to practice reciting..."I am a runner!!" :-)
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Summary: Running for Women
Review: This has got to be the best book ever written about running for women, and not because it's the only one I've ever read! Indeed, this book is so crammed full of vital information that, once read, you'll need to go back through it again and take notes to remember it all. After a year of self-controled weight loss and fitness improving, and at the ripe old age of 47, I discovered running for the first time in my life. I decided to test my skill at a charity 5-K, and I bought this book in time to read it before the race. The only thing it didn't adequately prepare me for was the feeling I got as I turned that last curve and headed for the finish line! Talk about your runner's high! If you only buy one book about running for women(and indeed, after you read it you'll only need this one), get this one. I highly recommend it and would someday like to personally thank Claire for writing it! Thanks to her, I not only ran the entire 5-K, but I set a personal best! Get it, and good luck!
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Summary: running for women
Review: This insert has giving me a start to began an excise proram. I thought that I need more than 20 minutes to start a program. I feel that this is the secert for me to starting my weight loss permant program. I have heard many negative things about running the studies that are presented has help me understand about how the medical feels about running. I can now feel safe after reading this book;also, with this new insight I feel like I will be very successful eveyone should have a copy of this book.
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Summary: A permanent fixture on my nightstand!
Review: This is a great book for runners of every level! Not only does Claire take you through shopping for shoes, bras and treadmills, she explains how running is affected by menapause, pregnancy.. she talks about eating disorders and proper nutrition.. What i like the best is all the training information. How to do pace workouts, speed drills, strides, how to breathe and how do weighlift.. A great book overall!
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