Sage Rountree

There are a lot of tips in this book but what I found especially interesting was how it helps you think about the differences between goals and intention for your race. Goals are more number based but intention is how do you want to feel and what will your philosophy be on race day. Do you want to celebrate your race, do you want to race with courage, do you want to run with gratitude. It's sappy....but I've found over the years that it is also important.

The book helps you think about what is in and out of your control and how to react to things. Thinking about all the possibilities and coming up with plans to deal with them help make race day go better.

There is also a bunch of practical stuff about training plans, travel and food plans and how to build mental strength.

I just really liked this different spin about "racing" and not about training exactly. A worthwhile addition to my running library for sure.
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Yoga makes good athletes better. With its emphasis on flexibility, balance, and whole-body strength, this time-honored discipline leads to better form, efficiency, and power. As increasing numbers of athletes are discovering, it improves mental focus and endurance, assets that become especially important at the end of a training session or race. This book explains how athletes can see progress from just ten minutes of yoga each day. It features more than 230 color photographs illustrating over 100 poses that target common areas of inflexibility and overuse; breath and meditation exercises; different types of yoga for each phase of training; a DVD with warm-up and cool-down routines; and recommendations for intensity and volume of yoga workouts throughout the training year. Author Sage Rountree's applications for training and racing ease the introduction to yoga, making this a practical and worthwhile guide for all athletes.… (plus d'informations)