Matt Fitzgerald's New Book Teaches the Run-by-Feel Techniques of Elite Runners

Boulder, CO, USA - June 15, 2010 - Most serious runners don't realize their potential because they are unable to run by feel. For many, years of traditional training have taught them to rely on formulas and gadgets instead of how to listen to their bodies. They simply stop getting faster and don't understand why. The best elite runners have learned that the key to faster running is to hear what their bodies are telling them.

In his new book RUN: The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel, best-selling author Matt Fitzgerald explores the run-by-feel practices of elite runners and draws on new research to explain why their techniques can be effective for all runners. RUN will teach runners how to listen to their bodies so they can train in the most personalized and adaptable way and begin to realize their full potential. The book is now available in bookstores, running shops, and online. The table of contents, foreword by Dathan Ritzenhein, and first chapter are available for download at VeloPress.com (.pdf).

Fitzgerald's mind-body method is a thought-provoking approach to training and will revolutionize how runners think about their workouts, their limits, and their potential. RUN explains how to interpret emotional and physical messages like confidence, enjoyment, fatigue, suffering, and aches and pains. RUN guides readers toward the optimal balance of intensity and enjoyment, volume and recovery, repetition and variation. As the miles add up, runners will become increasingly confident that they are doing the right workouts on the right days, from one season to the next.

RUN marks the start of a better way to train. The culmination of science and personal experience, the mind-body method of running by feel will lead runners to faster, more enjoyable training and racing.

RUN: The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel by Matt Fitzgerald
Paperback, 6" x 9", 276 pp. | $18.95, 978-1-934030-57-8

Matt Fitzgerald is a prolific health and fitness journalist and author of many books on fitness, nutrition, and weight loss, including Brain Training for Runners, Racing Weight, and The Runner's Diary.

VeloPress is an endurance sports and fitness publisher with books on cycling, triathlon, running, swimming, nutrition and diet, yoga, and the histories and personalities of our sports. VeloPress is the book publishing division of Competitor Group, Inc., publisher of VeloNews, Triathlete, Inside Triathlon, and Competitor magazines and producer of the Rock 'N' Roll marathon and half-marathon series, TriRock triathlons, and the Muddy Buddy adventure race series.

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