adjusting for age
hard days in
reading and following
roadblocks in
training stimulus
training strain
travel, as marathon attraction
triceps press
tune-up races
back-to-back hard days and
purpose
recovery from
during taper
in training schedule
twice-a-day runs
V
Vegetarian Sports Nutrition (Larson-Meyer)
visualization
vitamin46
vitamin46
vitamin E
vitamin supplements
O2max. See also interval training
as attribute
described
improving
training adaptations
W
WADA
“the wall”
Wami, Gete
Wanjiru, Sammy
warm-ups
water running
weather
hot
training schedule and
Williams, Keith
Williams, Melvin
work
recovery strategies and
as stress factor
time management and
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
Z
zinc
About the Authors
Pete Pfitzinger ran in the 1984 and 1988 Olympic marathons, both times finishing as the top American. With a personal best of 2:11:43, Pfitzinger is a two-time winner of the San Francisco Marathon and placed third in the 1987 New York City Marathon. He was ranked the top American marathoner in 1984 by Track & Field News, and he is a member of the Road Runners Club of America’s Hall of Fame. Currently the chief executive of the New Zealand Academy of Sport in Auckland, he has written all or parts of two other books on running and was a senior writer for Running Times from 1997 to 2007, in which his popular column, “The Pfitzinger Lab Report,” appeared.
Scott Douglas is a freelance writer and editor with more than 15 years of professional journalism experience related to running. A former editor of Running Times, he is a regular contributor to Runner’s World and Running Times and has coauthored four books on running, including two with running legend Bill Rodgers.
