Running Science

Description

This book deals with the hard science behind better athletic performance. The pace of knowledge enhancement and innovation in running has been so brisk through the last few years that even highly informed athletes could be excused for not keeping up. Running Science is an easy to understand repository of running research and offers a wealth of insights distilled from great sport and exercise scientists, coaches and runners. It provides an array of the most credible and widely used training principles and programmes. But perhaps most importantly, it is a celebration of the latest science-based know-how of running, now arguably the world's most popular participant sport.

Owen Anderson, PhD, has been a regular contributor to Runner's World, Shape, Men's Health, Peak Performance, National Geographic Adventure, and Sports Injury Bulletin. He has written extensively on the topics of running training, strength training for running, sports nutrition, and injury prevention, and he developed the neural system of training, which diminishes the emphasis on mileage and promotes the use of high-quality running and the progression of running-specific strength training to achieve optimal running fitness. Anderson is the founder of Lansing Sports Management, which coaches elite athletes from Kenya and manages their international competitions. He has enjoyed a successful career coaching runners of all levels, including notables such as Benjamin Simatei, the winner of the Park Forest 10-mile race in Chicago, Illinois, and Chemtai Rionotukei, who in 2012 and 2013 has six victories, two course records, and 14 top-four finishes in U.S. road races, including a win at the 2013 Fifth Third River Bank 25K. Anderson is the race director of the annual Lansing Marathon, Lansing Half Marathon, and Ekiden Relay. In addition, he hosts running camps throughout the U.S., including the Lansing Marathon Running Camp in Thetford Center, Vermont. Anderson is also the CEO of Lansing Moves the World, a nonprofit foundation that coordinates three projects, including an after school program for Lansing children age 9 to 14, a tree planting program in east Africa, and a program for families and children victimized by the recent violence in the Tana River Delta district of Kenya. Anderson was awarded a National Science Foundation fellowship and completed his PhD at Michigan State University.