This Is Running For Your Life

Author : Michelle Orange
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781466827707

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This Is Running for Your Life by Michelle Orange Pdf

Michelle Orange uses the lens of pop culture to decode the defining characteristics of our media-drenched times In This Is Running for Your Life, Michelle Orange takes us from Beirut to Hawaii to her grandmother's retirement home in Canada in her quest to understand how people behave in a world increasingly mediated—for better and for worse—by images and interactivity. Orange's essays range from the critical to the journalistic to the deeply personal; she seamlessly combines stories from her own life with incisive analysis as she explores everything from the intimacies we develop with celebrities and movie characters to the troubled creation of the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. With the insight of a young Joan Didion and the empathy of a John Jeremiah Sullivan, Orange dives into popular culture and the status quo and emerges with a persuasive and provocative book about how we live now. Her singular voice will resonate for years to come.

Author : Lopez Lomong,Mark A. Tabb
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781595555151

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Running for My Life by Lopez Lomong,Mark A. Tabb Pdf

Offers the true story of a Sudanese boy who, through unyielding faith, overcame a wartorn nation to become an American citizen and an Olympic contender.

Author : Mark Cucuzzella, MD
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781101912386

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Run for Your Life by Mark Cucuzzella, MD Pdf

A straightforward, easy-to-follow look at the anatomy, biomechanics, and nutrition of running. Dr. Cucuzzella "aims to improve the fitness and well-being of all, from the uninitiated to beginners to veterans who still have new tricks to learn" (Amby Burfoot, Boston Marathon winner, writer at large for Runner’s World magazine, and author of The Runner’s Guide to the Meaning of Life). Despite our natural ability and our human need to run, each year more than half of all runners suffer injuries. Pain and discouragement inevitably follow. Cucuzzella's book outlines the proven, practical techniques to avoid injury and reach the goal of personal fitness and overall health. With clear drawings and black-and-white photographs, the book provides illustrated exercises designed to teach healthy running, along with simple progressions and a running schedule that shows the reader how to tailor their training regimen to their individual needs and abilities.

Author : Michelle Orange
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374533328

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This Is Running for Your Life by Michelle Orange Pdf

A collection of essays focuses on the author's quest to understand how people behave in a world increasingly mediated, for better and for worse, by images and interactivity.

Author : William Pullen
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780241262832

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Run for Your Life by William Pullen Pdf

**As heard on Dr Rangan Chatterjee's 'Feel Better, Live More' Podcast** We all know how a long walk, a slow jog or a brisk run can free our minds to wander, and give us a powerful uplifting feeling. Some call it the 'runner's high', others put it down to endorphins. But what if we could channel that energy and use it to make positive change in our lives? William Pullen is a psychotherapist who helps people dealing with anxiety, lack of motivation and addition, to work through their issues using his revolutionary method, Dynamic Running Therapy. He believes that we need a radical new approach to mindfulness: an approach that originates in the body itself. Whether you are looking for strategies to cope with anxiety, change or decision-making, or simply want to focus your mind while pounding the streets, Run for Your Life offers a series of simple mental routines that unleash the meditative, restorative powers of exercise.

Author : Jordan Wylie
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781785905346

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Running For My Life by Jordan Wylie Pdf

This is the extraordinary true story of how a former British soldier turned extreme adventurer set out to run marathons in the world's most dangerous countries. In 2018, Jordan Wylie trained and ran in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan to raise awareness of the plight of children suffering in war zones as well as the funds to help provide education. Risking his life in some of the most hostile places in the world, Wylie defies suicide bombers, official advice, dehydration and exhaustion, as well as his own mental and physical health issues in an incredible tale of endurance and tenacity against the odds. His first race, in Somalia, is moved to Somaliland after a suicide bomber kills 600 people. Running the Baghdad half-marathon brings back painful memories of friends and colleagues he lost when he served there. Finally, at the Afghanistan marathon, he provides a high-profile target for the Taliban, who murder seventeen people the day before he arrives. What makes these three runs even more challenging is the fact that Jordan is affected not just by mental health issues from his own experiences, but also with epilepsy. Alongside the more extreme obstacles, Jordan has to overcome self-doubt – and the doubt of others – to show what can be achieved with belief and fortitude.

Author : Seb Coe
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781444731040

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Running My Life - The Autobiography by Seb Coe Pdf

One second in time may separate the great athlete from the merely good. Seb Coe has made every second count. From an early age he has been driven to be the best at everything he does. Since the moment Coe stood alongside a 'scrubby' municipal running track in Sheffield, he knew that sport could change his life. It did. Breaking an incredible twelve world records and three of them in just forty-one days, Seb became the only athlete to take gold at 1500 metres in two successive Olympic Games (Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984). The same passion galvanised Coe in 2005, when he led Britain's bid to bring the Olympic and Paralympic Games to London. He knew that if we won it would regenerate an East London landscape and change the lives of thousands of young people. It has. Born in Hammersmith and coached by his engineer father, Coe went from a secondary modern school and Loughborough University to become the fastest middle-distance runner of his generation. His rivalry with Steve Ovett gripped a nation and made Britain feel successful at a time of widespread social discontent. From sport Coe transferred his ideals to politics, serving in John Major's Conservative government from 1992 to 1997 and developing 'sharp elbows' to become chief of staff to William Hague, leader of the Party from 1997 to 2001 and finally a member of the House of Lords. Running My Life is in turns exhilarating, inspiring, amusing, and extremely moving. Everyone knows where Sebastian Coe ended up. Few people realise how he got there. This is his personal journey.

Author : Silvana Gandolfi
Publisher : Restless Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781632061669

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Run For Your Life by Silvana Gandolfi Pdf

Author : Roy M. Wallack
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781602393448

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Run for Life by Roy M. Wallack Pdf

A comprehensive plan for runners of every age that offers an overview of the health benefits of running and provides step-by-step instructions to avoid common running problems and making the most of a running workout.

Author : Ray Zahab
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Marathon running
ISBN : 1897178441

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Running for My Life by Ray Zahab Pdf

The story of the world's number-one adventure runner.

Author : Warrick Dunn,Don Yaeger
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061980435

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Running for My Life by Warrick Dunn,Don Yaeger Pdf

Warrick Dunn was only eighteen when his mother, a Baton Rouge police officer, was shot and killed. Yet somehow he managed to enroll at Florida State University and help his team to a national championship during his freshman year—while also caring for his five brothers and sisters. Despite his modest size, Dunn went on to a storied NFL career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Atlanta Falcons, becoming one of only twenty-three running backs in NFL history to exceed the 10,000-yard career rushing mark. Off the field, he created the Warrick Dunn Foundation and its Homes for the Holidays program, helping single parents achieve first-time home ownership. But in his drive to help others, the one person Dunn neglected was himself, as the pain of his mother's loss led to a spiraling depression that went untreated for years. Running for My Life details Dunn's struggle to confront his past and face the grief that consumed him for far too long. Thought-provoking and uplifting, it is the story of an exceptional athlete's secret torment and inspiring courage.

Author : Michelle Orange
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443453585

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Pure Flame by Michelle Orange Pdf

A searing work of cultural memoir, Michelle Orange’s Pure Flame explores the meaning of maternal legacy―in her own family and across a century of seismic change. In a series of texts with her mother, Michelle Orange learned about the existence of Janis Jerome, who, it turns out, is one of her mother’s many alter egos: the name used in a case study, eventually sold to the Harvard Business Review, about her mother’s midlife choice to leave her husband and children to pursue career opportunities in a bigger city. A flashpoint in the lives of both mother and daughter, the decision forms the heart of a broader exploration of the impact of feminism on what Adrienne Rich called “the great unwritten story”: that of the mother-daughter bond. The death of Orange’s maternal grandmother at nearly ninety-six and the fear that her mother’s more “successful” life will not be as long bring new urgency to her questions about the woman whose absence and anger helped shape her life. Through a blend of memoir, social history, and cultural criticism, Pure Flame pursues a chain of personal, intellectual, and collective inheritance, tracing the forces that helped transform the world and what a woman might expect from it. Told with warmth and rigor, Orange’s account of her mother’s life and their relationship is pressurized in critical and unexpected ways, resulting in an essential, revelatory meditation on becoming, selfhood, freedom, mortality, storytelling, and what it means to be a mother’s daughter now.

Author : John Bingham,Jenny Hadfield
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781594863257

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Running for Mortals by John Bingham,Jenny Hadfield Pdf

The authors of Marathoning for Mortals - John "The Penguin" Bingham and Coach Jenny Hadfield, MA, CPT - now show beginning runners how to fit running into their lifestyle easily You don't have to run fast or competitively to reap the rewards that running has to offer. What you do need is the courage to start. That is the "Penguin mantra" that has enabled John Bingham—through his best-selling book No Need for Speed, his popular monthly column for Runner's World magazine, and his many appearances at major running events throughout the year—to inspire thousands of men and women to take up the sport for fitness and the sheer enjoyment that running brings them. By teaming up with coach Jenny Hadfield, his wife and coauthor on Marathoning for Mortals, Bingham lays out strategies that will help readers to safely and effortlessly integrate runs into their busy schedules. In this book, backed by Runner's World, the authority of America's leading running magazine, the authors provide tips for getting started, sticking to a routine, eating for energy, hydration, and training for speed and endurance.

Author : Rachel Ann Cullen
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Ltd.
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781911274858

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Running For My Life by Rachel Ann Cullen Pdf

For readers who enjoyed Alexandra Heminsley's Running like a Girl and Bryony Gordon's Mad Girl, Running for my Life is a hilarious, heartfelt and inspirational story of one woman's marathon journey through mental illness. Throughout her life, Rachel Cullen followed a simple yet effective route straight to mental health misery. Suffering from bipolar disorder, and hungry for approval at any price, she settled for flunked relationships, an ill-fitting career, and poor health to match. Whilst mindlessly seeking a utopian vision of 'normality' that she was mis-sold and so desperate to achieve, the solution seemed increasingly illusive. Stuck in this endless cycle of disappointment with her life, and not knowing how to handle the strain of her mental illness, she put on a pair of old trainers. She'd never been able to think of herself as a 'runner', 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. Interspersed with Rachel's real diary entries, from tortuous teen years to eventually running the London Marathon,Running for my Life will make you laugh, cry, and question whether you really can outrun your demons.

Author : Roche, David,Roche, Megan
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781492567646

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The Happy Runner by Roche, David,Roche, Megan Pdf

Is your daily run starting to drag you down? Has running become a chore rather than the delight it once was? Then The Happy Runner is the answer for you. Authors David and Megan Roche believe that you can’t reach your running potential without consistency and joyful daily adventures that lead to long-term health and happiness. Guided by their personal experiences and coaching expertise, they point out the mental and emotional factors that will help you learn exactly how to become a happy runner and achieve your personal best.