The runs found inside range from beginner jogs on flat, manicured paths to full-on mountain epics that take runners into lush and wild terrain. Areas covered include Pacific Spirit Park, False Creek, Stanley Park, the North Shore Mountains, Burnaby and Port Moody. All runs include a text description, a detailed contour map, professional photographs and eye-catching icons to help guide decision making. Finally, the introduction is chock full of valuable local information, running tips and gear recommendations. Get your copy today!
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Book Details:

• Released: February, 2011
• Author: Rich Wheater
• Pages: 212
• Contents: Colour

Editor’s Note – the book can be purchased in BC at the following retail locations:

• Affinity Sports (Whistler) http://www.affinityrentals.com/
• Armchair Books (Whistler) http://www.whistlerbooks.com/
• Behind the Grind (Whistler)
• Bike Co. (Whistler) http://www.bikeco.ca/
• Bookshelf, The (Squamish)
• Cliffhanger Climbing Gym (Richmond) http://www.cliffhangerrichmond.com/
• Cliffhanger Climbing Gym (Vancouver) http://www.cliffhangervancouver.com/
• Climb On (Squamish) http://www.climbonsquamish.com/
• Core Climbing and Fitness Centre (Whistler) http://www.whistlercore.com/
• Crag X Climbing Gym (Victoria) http://www.urbancliffculture.com/
• Cross Country Connections (Whistler) http://www.crosscountryconnection.ca/summer/index.html
• Escape Route (Whistler) http://www.escaperoute.ca/
• Evolution (Whistler) http://www.evolutionwhistler.com/home/
• Fanatykco (Whistler) http://www.fanatykco.com/
• Fineline Ride Shop (Whistler) http://www.finelinewhistler.net/
• Grocery Store (Whistler) http://www.whistlergrocery.com/
• Japanada (Whistler) http://www.japanada.com/
• Mountain Equipment Co-op (North Vancouver) http://www.mec.ca/splash.jsp
• Mountain Equipment Co-op (Vancouver) http://www.mec.ca/splash.jsp
• Mountain Magic (Surrey) http://www.mountainmagicgear.com/
• Pemberton Bike Co. (Pemberton) http://www.bikeco.ca/tag/pemberton/
• Robinson’s Outdoor Store (Victoria) http://www.robinsonsoutdoors.com/
• Snosciety (Whistler)
• Snowcovers (Whistler) http://www.snowcovers.com/
• Squamish Store (Squamish – Tourism Office)
• Summit (Whistler) http://www.summitsport.com/summer/
• Upper Village Market (Whistler) http://www.uppervillagemarket.com/
• Valhalla Pure Outfitters (Abbotsford) http://www.shop.vpo.ca/
• Valhalla Pure Outfitters (Squamish) http://www.squamishgear.com/site/
• Valhalla Pure Outfitters (Vancouver)http://www.shop.vpo.ca/
• Whistler Foto Source (Whistler) http://whistler.fotosource.com/
• Whistler Village Sports (Whistler) http://www.whistlervillagesports.com/index.html

As the popularity of endurance events including the marathon, Ironman and adventure racing has exploded, more athletes are venturing into ultrarunning.

Squamish author Margreet Dietz, a five-time Ironman finisher and a 3:07 marathoner, is among them and has written a book to inspire and encourage those tempted to try it, with some practical advice too: A Hundred Reasons to Run 100km.

After finishing a 50-mile run on the trails in British Columbia in August 2010, Dietz decided to prepare for a 100-kilometre (62-mile) ultra three months later. The century distance is drawing an increasing number of runners worldwide. “It is the universal ultra distance,” Marathon & Beyond magazine editor Richard Benyo says in the introduction to A Hundred Reasons to Run 100km.

Vancouver’s Lucy Ryan has run four 100km ultras, finished eight Ironman triathlons and Ultraman Canada—which consists of a 10km open water swim, a 421km bike ride, and an 84km run—in the past four years. In 2005, the mom with a fulltime job had never run farther than a half marathon. “Running 100km gives you a ‘day off’ from regular life. It’s like a vacation of the mind—no thoughts of finances, work, what thekids are up to, etcetera—just pure survival. How often do you get to do that?” Ryan says in A Hundred Reasons to Run 100km.

The International Association of Ultrarunners’ flagship 100km World Championship is recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). This year the 100km World Championship is held in Winschoten, the Netherlands, the location of an ultrarun that dates back to 1976.

There now are hundreds of 100km races around the world, on trails and roads. Some run from A to B, others on fixed circuits such as the Fast Trax 100km in Edmonton, Canada, which consists of 10km loops. Runners can participate on their own, or on a team. In Oxfam Trailwalker events, which are point-to-point races held in a dozen countries, teams of four also commit to raising money for development projects.

Jen Segger, professional endurance athlete and owner of Challenge by Choice Coaching, advises in A Hundred Reasons to Run 100km, “Choose to race your first 100km in an area that you have always wanted to see and experience. I select races based on location.”

In the U.S., you can find a 100km race in nearly every month of the year, such as the Miwok 100km Trail Race in May. Europe has more than enough on offer, such as the Biel 100km in Switzerland in June. In Australia, there’s The North Face 100 in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, and many others.

“There’s something special about 100km,” says UltraRunningmagazine editor Tia Bodington in A Hundred Reasons to Run 100km. “Sixty-two miles pushes you over the edge into the realm of philosophy; you have to dig deep to get it done, but you’re still showered and in bed by midnight.”

A 100km event marked Bodington’s own foray into ultrarunning in 2000.

As A Hundred Reasons to Run 100km author Margreet Dietz was finalizing her physical preparations for her century race, she started to ready herself mentally too. She knew that there would be moments during the day when she’d be asking herself why she had entered. An experienced endurance athlete, Dietz knew she’d better have at least one good answer, which turned into one for every kilometre. This book on ultrarunning offers plenty of inspiration, practical tips, and the key reason to run 100km—because you can.

“The book is a very good read—very intuitive for someone who is a veteran of ultramarathons or for those who are attempting their first century distance,” according to Nadeem Khan, director of communications, International Association of Ultrarunners.

A Hundred Reasons to Run 100km by Margreet Dietz is available in paperback (132 pages) through https://www.createspace.com/3450183 and Amazon.com, and in electronic format for Amazon’s Kindle and through Apple’s iBookstore [Editor's note: to receive a$3 introductory discount for the $15.95 paperback, please go to Margreet Dietz's online store and use the code 24WNDLF6].

This is the fifth book by Margreet Dietz, who is also the author of Running Shoes Are a Girl’s Best Friend, Powered From Within: Stories About Running & Triathlon, A Work in Progress: Exercises in Writing, and Sunshine on a wooden floor (poems). More info http://www.margreetdietz.com/.

About the author:

Margreet Dietz was born in the Netherlands in 1970. A professional journalist since 1996, Margreet reported for Bloomberg News from Brussels, Toronto and Sydney, and worked as a copy-editor at The Australian Financial Review in Sydney and at The Vancouver Sun.

Her articles on business and finance have been published in newspapers worldwide, while her features on running and triathlon have appeared in endurance sports magazines in Australia and Canada since 2006.

A runner since 1996, Margreet also couldn’t resist the lure of triathlon. After finishing her fifth Ironman in March 2005, she realized running was her main passion. Still aiming to improve her marathon PB of 3:07, she finished her first 50-mile trail race in August 2010 and her first 100km road race in November 2010, winning the 40-49 division in both.

She’s now training for the 2011 BMO Vancouver Marathon on May 1 and the Tenderfoot Boogie, a 50-mile trail race from her hometown of Squamish to Whistler on May 14.

Canadian running, duathlon and triathlon champion Lucy Smith is launching her first book, First Triathlon, Your Perfect Plan for Success, 7:30-9:00pm on Feb. 17, 2011 at Frontrunners Footwear in Victoria.

Lucy is a winner of many races across a broad range of disciplines. Originally from Bedford, Nova Scotia, Smith now lives and trains in Sidney, BC. She continues to compete at a high level as a master athlete, while balancing a busy life schedule.

The book is written for adults wanting to start training for their first triathlon. The book includes basics about running and triathlon, preparing for a race, equipment, transitions, nutrition, coaching and mental preparation.

The book can be purchased at most bookstores including Amazon here.

Gift Idea #3 – Matt Fitzgerald’s latest book Run: The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel

As a runner have you ever tried sticking with a detailed training plan only to have something happen that causes it all to fall apart? Do you want to learn how to run more by feel? Matt Fitzgerald explores this concept in his latest book The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel. This is not a conventional running book. Instead is includes a collection of essays which explore ideas on what is referred to as the run-by-feel philosophy.

Here’s an excerpt from the book which explains what this means:

Only past experience can tell you that a typical weekly schedule of six runs per week with high-intensity work on Tuesdays and Fridays and a long run on Sundays is the best weekly schedule for you. And for that matter, only experience can give you good hunches about the specific form each run should take as you come upon it. Therefore, as a beginner, you must rely on conventional training plans and then gradually wean yourself off them as you gather experience about what works and what does not and you develop a mind-body connection as it relates to training.

Note that this is not a book for beginners. The reader must instead have some experience with training and racing in order to get a good understanding of this philosophy entails.

The book can be purchases at most book stores or online at amazon here.

Originally posted on Flotrack and re-posted here with permission by the author, Christopher Kelsall – © Christopher Kelsall – 2010 – Copyright

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Chris McDougall – Born to Run – A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen.

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Random House, Inc, 2009 – Knopf. 287 pp. $24.95

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I sit blurry-eyed watching planes take off through the floor-to-ceiling wall of windows framed in chrome and glass, I am sort of contemplating paganism, minimalism…bagism. Perhaps John Lennon should have added the former two isms, to his indelible anthem Give Peace a Chance. I am reading former war correspondent Chris McDougall’s book, Born to Run and I can’t put it down, hence the reason for the blurred vision and the reference to paganism and minimalism.

Born to Run begins with McDougall struggling on his runs, suffering multiple injuries due, he believes, to shoes that rather than support and protect his feet, cause injuries. His own physician told him to find another sport. Not willing to give up that easily, McDougall visited several practitioners before serendipitously accepting the assignment (from Runner’s World Magazine) to locate the lost tribe of super athletes, the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico and the potentially mythical ghost Caballo Blanco, also known as The White Horse, all located deep in the Mexican state of Chihuahua in a land-bound region known as the Copper Canyons where the Tarahumara live just as they did 500 years ago. They are so reclusive, people from the outside world have rarely ever seen them. In fact, McDougall only eerily discovered a Tarahumara tribesman when he found himself nearly standing on top of his hut.

McDougall sets out to tackle the precarious notion that the mega-dollar running shoe companies like Nike, create more problems than solutions by manufacturing their technical shoes with too much cushioning, unnecessary stabilization and heel counters.

Having just finished chapters 21 through 24, I am agog from an intense session of reading that I dove into between flights. I have to get up and have my goods x-rayed by airport security before I am to wait again, this time in the boarding area, to listen to final announcements over the PA system – and continue reading; fitting in as much time with the book as I can before getting onto the next plane, then quickly open the book again in my window seat. Forget the breathtaking vistas that we will travel over – 600kms of snow-capped Canadian Rocky Mountains and the safety announcement from the in-flight crew, I am bent on getting lost in the story again; it’s just that good.

Chapter 24 follows introductions from chapter 20-on, of new and prominent characters who turn the anticipated ultra-race of the century into a kind of pre-expedition Fear and Loathing nightmare for fine-tuned athletes and the entrenched author – by the way, his own character never overshadows the point of the story however, the young and wild Jenn ‘Mookie’ Shelton and Billy ‘Bonehead’ Barnett take the stage, partying late into the night disturbing hotel staff to the point of nearly getting the boot. At this time McDougall introduces the greatest ultra-runner of our time, Scott Jurek who will take on the Tarahumara, toe-to-toe in the greatest ultra race never to be seen and another of the long cast of characters, Barefoot Ted, an attention-seeking barefoot proponent from LA.

McDougall dives into ultra racing lore when he takes the reader to the Leadville 100 race and the media spectacle that it became when organizers pitted the miss-managed Tarahumara against Ann Trason the queen of ultras or bruja. The tribesman’s manager Rick Fisher motivated the tribesmen by referring to Trason as a bruja, which is Spanish for witch.

“The weirdness started when Rick Fisher’s dusty Chevy rolled to a stop outside Leadville race Headquarters and two guys in white wizard capes stepped out.”

Before commencing the final leg of their collective journey to the bottom of the Copper Canyons to start the ultra race McDougall, about to climb into the rattly bus discovers his main character Caballo Blanco sitting on the roof planning to ride with the luggage while the bus trundles down a treacherous road, a road that has taken lives; carcasses of vehicles that have steered too close the edge, lay strewn about the canyon floor, which the passengers lay witness to as they descend to their destination – an ancient mining town eight thousand feet below the lip of the canyon, McDougall writes:

Caballo was on top of the bus, catching bags for the driver. Jenn and Billy were already beside him, lounging in a cushy pile of baggage. “You’ll never get a ride like this again.”

No wonder the Tarahumara thought Caballo was a ghost. There was no telling what this guy would do, or where he would turn up. “Forget it,” I said. “I’ve seen this road. I’m getting in the crash-ready position inside between the two fattest guys I can find.”

McDougall’s writing style is somewhat reminiscent of Jon Krakauer (Into Thin Air), he also writes with a hint of Gonzo, perhaps testing the genre. It all balances well within the parameters of the story. McDougall breaks off into very informative vignettes that introduce us to the aforementioned world-class ultra-runners and the brilliant coach, Dr. Joel Vigil – McDougall admirably brings them to life on the pages.

McDougall’s encounter with the Tarahumara was fruitful in that they demonstrate that running for hours at a time is completely doable, even barefoot. In fact the tribe prove that running daily is cathartic, healthy and spiritual. Running long distances is man’s history from pursuit hunting, running for transportation purposes and of course survival. He successfully finds, with additional research, that we were Born to Run, meanwhile he tells this story in a way that will surely coax the most sedentary and devoted couch potato to get up and run out the door towards freedom.

As my plane landed at my final destination, I lent back in the seat and reluctantly closed the book. But I had to deplane. I was the first to jump up into the center aisle to avoid the claustrophobic feeling I get when having to hunch in the queue, which I felt would be highly magnified this time as Born to Run was motivating me to bolt for the tarmac, gallop across the runway and into the alpine forest. I almost did, the book was just that good.

(C) Copyright – 2010 – Christopher Kelsall

On the Wings of Mercury – a self–penned autobiography by Lorraine Moller – a world-class middle and long distance runner – is one of the most riveting and highly emotional tell-all memoirs – a must-read.

Moller begins her witty stream of consciousness in self-deprecating style, where she describes her birth and how even then she forced people to run beyond their scope, in this case the family physician, who had to run just to make the delivery in time. Moller captures the reader’s attention immediately and never lets go.

The prologue starts with:

‘Legend tells of fire-breathing dragons that lurk in the bowels of the earth beneath Catalonia. What I sense this summer afternoon of 1992 in Barcelona as I survey the race course is that the road stretching between me and my dream is a steamy tar-pit of reptilian breath, threatening to suck the water out of my skin and desiccate my precious hope for gold’.

The Biography:

As a child she was often sick and required hospitalization. The reader gets the sense that Moller’s self-esteem was affected through her teen years and later into her twenties, by her lonely hours wiled away in the cold hospital environment. Her apparent lack of self-esteem may have been exacerbated by her engagement in negative relationships, culminating in two marriages and four engagements; this paradox revolved into a perpetuating cycle of self-questioning.

If you think modern athletics is in a moral crisis, Lorraine Moller takes you back to the 70s and 80s. Not the Nike-upon-Oregon Disney fable where Pre was the golden boy of athletics and Bowerman was burning out waffle irons, much to his wife’s chagrin, but to the time when eastern bloc athletes were doped up on steroids. The women – being grotesquely masculine – looked even more hideous in their pathetic attempts to appear feminine when dressing in lace (only exacerbating the contrast) at the Helsinki World Championships village – an impossible task. Moller pulls no punches in her assertion of the eastern-bloc athletes as victims of systematic doping by their communist federations; she also shares a sense of pity for them. However, no dopers of any stripe escape her wrath.

Moller writes:

‘A rumor ran through the (Seoul Olympic) village that there were 20 more positives (tests) among medal winners and the announcement of them was imminent. It never came. We were all waiting for Flojo to follow Ben Johnson out of the country in shame. I had seen her in Los Angeles four years before and now she had beefed up like a prize bull for a show. For my own curiosity I chased her down in the village, ostensibly to offer my congratulations for her series of gold medals and world records in the sprints. Up close, she had a five o’ clock shadow that even heavy make-up couldn’t conceal. At least, I rationalized, ‘failure’ was a preferable label to ‘cheat’, and definitely preferable to sporting a moustache with red lipstick’.

And in the so-called free world of amateurism – a holdover from original aristocratic pastime of pedestrianism – athletes continued to be pinned to the mats of poverty. That is until Moller and her contemporaries decided enough was enough and threw caution to the wind and accepted prize money and appearance fees, risking their amateur status and Olympic dreams, just so they could make a living doing what people paid to see them do; run at unearthly speeds.

Katherine Switzer established a firm beachhead for women’s long distance running on the international stage. It just so happened that Moller, who holds admiration for Switzer, was feeling that she did not belong at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Her indignation on several fronts manifested itself where she took to yelling at certain individuals entering the stadium during the opening ceremonies. Where Switzer risked being a martyr for change, Moller and her contemporaries followed brazenly in her wake.

Regarding the Seoul Olympic ceremonies, Moller wrote:

‘I stood in the centre of the field watching the remaining teams enter. I should have had pride overwhelming me and shivers running up and down my spine, but I didn’t. I felt no love for mankind, only cynicism. There were so many Arab and African teams coming in with three fat officials and one athlete, and no female representation at all. It only served to annoy me further. I took to yelling at them as they went past, “Where’re your women?” My team-mates were giving me dirty looks but that only encouraged my heckling.’

Moller’s career out-lasted all of her contemporaries. None, except fellow Kiwi Rod Dixon, both the beneficiaries of the Arthur Lydiard influence, rivaled her versatility as a middle and long-distance athlete. Between her many marathon wins, World Championships, Commonwealth and Olympic performances, her life story is recanted with a wonderful sense of metaphor and wit. Lorraine writes with startling frankness in her humorous first-person narrative.

‘Piddling became my trademark. Especially in shop windows. The local fabric store came to have a distinctive odour on several bolts of material. Must have been imported from an exotic country, they sniffed. I could not help it. I was ill’.

When asked if writing On the Wings of Mercury was a cathartic experience, Lorraine wrote: “Totally cathartic. As I sifted through my past I bawled, laughed out loud, got indignant, disappointed all over again and mad as hell. By the time I got to the finish I had made peace with it all. I could let it go out into the public arena because my past history no longer had a hold on me.”

During her continued quest for gold to the age of 41, at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, Moller found herself atop Mount Olympus, stripped bare (in the snow) with arms raised to the heavens she beseeched the almighty Zeus, the father of all Olympians, to plead a humble request for sport’s supreme glory; Gold.

‘Oh Zeus, Great and Glorious Father of the Olympians, I, a mere mortal, with the greatest of humility, come to seek your audience. I have journeyed far to deliver this, my plea and my wish. I ask for your assistance in my bid to win Gold in the Women’s Marathon in Atlanta on July 28th 1996. For this I pledge to you my service and promise in every way to make myself worthy of being an Olympian…’

Zeus gave her gold in a sense and in-turn Moller gives us an autobiography so good and so entertaining, the reader feels her indignation, her humility, gets angry right along with her and rejoices in the humor and the joy of her glory.

On the Wings of Mercury stands out amongst the vast library of athletics memoirs and rises above all others. As Dr. Peter Snell wrote, “this is the most compelling autobiography I have ever read.”

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We’ve all read John L. Parker Junior’s contribution to running culture, the quasi-fictional parable, Once a Runner – or inevitably you will. As far as running novels go, Parker set the benchmark with this story, so-much-so that the very long-awaited sequel, Again to Carthage, as good as it is, will forever exist in the shadow of the former Parker touchstone. Think in terms of Paul McCartney’s post-Beatle career, much longer and arguably more successful artistically-speaking than his career as one of the fab four, but the giant shadow looms and will forever cast its influence. Once a Runner is as significant to running culture as Sgt. Pepper is to popular music culture.

I just finished reading Hal Higdon’s novel, Marathon, not to be confused with his top selling how to book of the same name. Hal has published some 35 books on running; Marathon is his first attempt at a novel. I asked him if the story has been rattling around in his mind for long: “Maybe not this particular story, but I had wanted to write a novel on running for maybe a quarter century, and have several false starts to prove it. The story line for Marathon probably dates back 5-6 years. I had another false start there too”.

On his website, Hal Higdon refers to himself as ‘Extreme Senior’, at first I entertained visions of Higdon chillaxin’ while riding his snowboard backcountry, carving to the sounds of Jayzee – toe-edge, heel-edge, toe-edge back and forth to the beat. Hal, likely in self-deprecating fashion, just means to say he has been around the running community for a long time and has experienced much to do with running. He proves so by writing a very entertaining novel, which also happens to provide insight into the goings on of putting together a major running event – the 50, 000-strong Lake City Marathon, which the story is centered around.

During the first few chapters, I grappled with the notion that Hal, perhaps being an extreme senior of how to, could not fully morph into an author of novels – not able to leave the instructor within him behind. This stayed with me for sometime however, as the story unfolded and the closer Higdon brought me to race day, the more anxiety I began to feel in my own expectations of the end. I began to feel similar anxiousness to that of my own marathon tapers.

Hal weaves an intricate labyrinthine tale, which culminates towards a peak that happens during the actual marathon and shortly afterwards, while equipment is being boxed up and the final few runners are straggling their way in. There is a budding romance between race director, Peter McDonald and a new-in-town television reporter, Christine Ferrera. How Higdon manages to get an extremely busy race director and a reporter together in the final hours before the marathon is interesting. It is worth noting that Hal’s intimate knowledge of race organization helps to set the stage in a very realistic manner.

The story reverberates palpable fear of pending disaster which manifests itself with the rumor of the possible loss of the title sponsor – a bank that had just undergone an ownership change to a new foreign company from Ireland and the new executive have not indicated one way or the other what their intentions are with their expensive sponsorship. In serendipitous irony, an Irish elite female is set to take centre stage as the favorite female discovers at the last minute her inability to compete. The race director hopes that the new Irish bank owners will be impressed.

Since Oprah Winfrey apparently ruined the marathon by running the Marine Corps Marathon, many celebrities have followed suit running Boston and New York, amongst others. Higdon’s Marathon entertains a few celebrities, one of whom is not revealed until well into the story, until then, he is referred to as Celebrity X (more famous than Oprah). Maintaining Celebrity X’s anonymity is an all-consuming effort for Peter McDonald.

And what successful story exists without the requisite good-guy – bad-guy tension? Somewhere in Storytelling 101, a good-guy cannot exist without a bad-guy lurking in a story’s shadows, in this case a journalist, Jonathan Von Runyon who’d prefer to cover golf from the golf course (perhaps with a 6-pack of brew in his golf bag), has been assigned to cover the marathon. The good-guy turns out to be race director, Peter McDonald. McDonald’s protection of the identity of Celebrity X carves a major plot line through the heart of the book. Angst develops between the golf reporter and race director as editorial about the possibility of losing the major sponsor and talk of disastrous weather are not healthy news for the event and of course Celebrity X’s identity must remain hidden.

There are a few top-end athletes sprinkled in, set to race the event on Sunday, their own preparation makes their way onto the pages and into the plot lines. Higdon provides the typical front-runners, including a few Kenyans and a Swede. The men and women’s finish order remains a mystery well past the 20-mile mark.

Similar to Once a Runner, Hal works a few characters into the story under partially veiled disguises,  “there is a sprinkling of real people in many, if not most of the characters. Don Geoffrey, of course, is me walking through my own book, although with a much different back-story and with a name that combines Don Kardong and Jeff Galloway. With many of the characters, I would actually have to think, who is that one based on?”

Race weekend is set to either completely unravel on Peter and crash around him like a house of cards caught in a tornado or to finish with a heroic finale. What finally happens is anybody’s guess up to the start of the race, so give up any prognosticating now, you won’t figure it out. Marathon is a story that in terms of entertainment value rises above most other running novels and reaches for that special place in our minds we have reserved for our own personal Once a Runners.

Trainharder’s Top 10 Books for December

Select titles which made this month’s list include:

• The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom – the story of six WWII solders who escaped a Russian labor camp and hiked on foot thousands of miles south to British India.
• Racing Weight: How to Get Lean for Peak Performance – a manual by estimed coach Matt Fitzgerald on how endurance athletes can identify their optimal weight and body composition in order to realize their goals.
• Simon Says Gold: Simon Whitfield’s Pursuit of Athletic Excellence – Simon’s new book for young adults recounts his personal journey to Olympic gold and silver and also includes his advice  on training.

To find out the rest visit the Books Page…