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  Ace The Half

  Beverly Asante Puschmann

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  This insightful training strategy writing is full of running advice for novices and recreational athletes. Here to help in your planning and preparation is a guide through your half marathon journey - whether that's to check it off your bucket list or to get fit.Ace The Half is an engaging book by running coach Beverly Asante Puschmann, who is a certified distance-running coach, a certified nutrition coach, and who is a half marathon runner herself. She's sprinkled in relatable stories about her own life to keep you laughing and entertained while she provides you with all the information you'll need. This is running writing for beginners and consistent athletes.Not only does this book motivate you to keep running, but there are also checklists, running tips about preparation, advice about choosing the best equipment and tools to use, and food intake (aka fueling) suggestions. Beverly even covers recovery after the fact, so you can use this book to prepare for multiple half marathons.In Ace The Half, you'll learn about:- Beverly's life as a runner- Finding your training plan- Mindset methods to keep you motivated- How to fuel and hydrate for training, racing, and recovery- How to make your final preparations for the all-important race dayThis running book for novice half marathoners is full of tips about running challenges, running advice about nutrition, and so much more!When will you run your first or next half marathon?

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  A Champion Cyclist Against the...

  Alberto Toscano

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  The true story of the Tour de France winner who cycled all over Mussolini’s Italy in a secret quest to rescue hundreds of Jewish lives. 
   
  Cyclist Gino Bartali won the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) three times and the Tour de France twice. But these weren’t his only achievements.  
   
  Deeply religious, Bartali quietly agreed during the dark years of fascist rule to work with the Resistance and pass messages and papers from one end of the country to the other. Despite the dangers, Bartali used his training as a pretext to criss-cross Italy, hiding documents in the handlebars and saddle of his bicycle, hoping each time he was searched that they wouldn’t think to disassemble his machine.  
   
  As a result of his bravery, eight hundred Jews—including numerous children—were saved from deportation. In this book, Alberto Toscano shares the incredible story of this great sportsman, recognized as one of the “Righteous Among the Nations” by Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Memorial after his death in Florence in 2000, and recounts a story of humble heroism, real-life suspense, and twentieth-century European history. 
   
  “An informative testament to the kinds of risks and sacrifices [of] the anti-Nazis in Mussolini’s Italy during World War II . . . an extraordinary story of an extraordinary man in extraordinary times.” —Midwest Book Review

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  We Can't Run Away From This -...

  Damian Hall

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  What if running in beautiful places was paradoxically contributing to the destruction of those precious environments and causing irreversible global harm to people and animals too?
  In We Can't Run Away From This, ultrarunner Damian Hall examines the impact of running in our climate and ecological emergency. Packed with insights from experts, it is an enlightening read which will prompt us all to really think about our kit, food and travel, and to identify simple changes we can make to our running and wider lives. But Damian also asks if concentrating on our individual footprints (pun unintended) is really the answer.
  We can't run away from this any more, and this book will give every runner ideas about how to live and exercise more sustainably.

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  Mind vs Target - Six steps to...

  Bob Palmer

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  The highly acclaimed SportExcel System is the revolutionary way to inject the Zone into your game. Shooters from around the globe have been applying the system to win for the last 25 years at all levels, from recreational trap shooting to Olympic skeet, to a dozen other competitive shooting games.   
  Backed by the science of how the brain works, SportExcel gives you a formula based on the Zone decoded. And this Zone System has been tested, proven and backed by Olympian medalists and other elite athletes. The precise formula for winning is presented in a step-by-step manner that gets and keeps you on the winning track.  
  For consistency in your game, the SportExcel formula will: 
  ·     Make the Zone feel normal 
  ·     Quiet your mind and remove the doubt 
  ·     Block out distracting thoughts, people and things 
  ·     Remove mistakes and misses from your memory 
  ·     Make learning easy and end bad habits 
  ·     Create target images that are bright and big (and slow) 
  ·     Initiate a fiery commitment to winning, leadership and fun 
  Whether you’re a world-class shooter, a weekend enthusiast, a beginner, a coach or a parent, this book is your handbook for teaching your very powerful mind to apply the Zone to the wonderful experience of winning. 

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  Aston Villa Quiz Book - 1000...

  Mart Matthews

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  How much do you really know about the club you love? You can find out by exploring the 1,000 questions set out in 100 categories that make up this Aston Villa Quiz Book.
  It's not often that books on football make reference to Karl Marx, The Boat Race, Tony Hancock, 'the Tiger' comic, 'dragons' Den' or 'Porridge,' but this one does!
  This latest quiz book from Mart Matthews is a quirky, challenging affair for real Villa fans who can test themselves or take each other on, with the emphasis on enjoyment and discovery. Try these for size:
  Who is the only Villa manager to have won the league title as a player or manager with three different clubs?
  Only two clubs have won and lost an FA Cup final against Villa. Who are they?
  
  When Villa were relegated to the third flight for the only time in their history in 1970 their manager at the time said 'I promised to take Villa out of the Second Division and that's exactly what I've done.' Who was he?

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  Saltwater Buddha - A Surfer's...

  Jaimal Yogis

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  “A journalist, photographer, and surfer, Yogis began the life of a roving seeker his junior year of high school, when he ran away from his Sacramento, Calif. home to learn how to surf in Hawaii. His subsequent travels include a handful of prime surfing spots, but Yogis's more arresting journey is spiritual, taking him to monasteries in France and Berkley, Calif., and deep into the living tradition of Zen Buddhism. Captured here in short chapters and wonderful, visual prose, Yogis's coming-of-age odyssey also takes readers into the culture of indigenous Hawaiians, who believe the gods were surfers. Yogis's long-time surfing mentor Rom provides insight into the science of surfing, ocean swells, the bathymetry of the continental shelf, deep water canyons and sea mounts. Even land lovers will find Yogis's lessons resonant and entertaining, but surfers will find this a quick, surprisingly deep tribute to the quest for surf and serenity.”―Publishers Weekly 
  Fed up with teenage life in the suburbs, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His journey is a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries, from the warm Pacific to the icy New York shore. Equal parts spiritual memoir and surfer’s tale, this is a chronicle of finding meditative focus in the barrel of a wave and eternal truth in the great salty blue. 
   Jaimal Yogis’s work has been published in The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Toronto Star, Beliefnet, Tricycle, and many more. He lives in San Francisco.

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