Running is America’s most popular participatory sport, yet more than half of those who identify as runners get injured every year. Falling prey to injuries from overtraining, faulty form, poor eating, and improper footwear, many runners eventually, and reluctantly, abandon the sport for a less strenuous pastime. But for the first time in the United States, Hiroaki Tanaka’s Slow Jogging demonstrates that there is an efficient, healthier, and pain-free approach to running for all ages and lifestyles. Tanaka’s method of easy running, or “slow jogging,” is an injury-free approach to running that helps participants burn calories, lose weight, and even reverse the effects of Type-2 diabetes. With easy-to-follow steps and colorful charts, Slow Jogging teaches runners to enjoy injury-free activity by: • Maintaining a smiling, or niko niko in Japanese, pace that is both easy and enjoyable • Landing on mid-foot, instead of on the heel • Choosing shoes with thin, flexible soles and no oversized heel • Aiming for a pace of 180 steps per minute • And trying to find time for activity every day Accessible to runners of all fitness levels and ages, Slow Jogging will inspire thousands more Americans to take up running and will change the way that avid runners hit the pavement.

A jogging handbook. It is a guide to why you should jog, if you are not jogging already; how you jog, or jog better if you jog already; and how it holds back the degeneration that does not necessarily have to accompany the advancing years.

This book has been the most popular and the best selling running book of all time.

Turner Publishing is proud to present a new edition of Sandra Hochman's, Jogging First published by Putnam in 1979, Hochman's fourth novel is the story of a man always one step ahead of love. From the Ballantine Books mass-market edition: Jerry Hess is a smooth millionaire in the priceless world of art. His life is fast and classy dinners on Monday, screenings on Wednesday, drinks on Friday. And sex—well, his wife Lillian, a brilliant lawyer, promises someday. So Jerry runs away. Step by step he crosses the landscape of his sexual fantasies. From the firm, youthful desires of Mary to the sophisticated, sinful wishes of Ursule to the liberating pleasures of Paris, the city where dreams come true, Jerry must choose between a new future with a new woman or the life he left behind.

From the best-selling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and After Dark, a rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running, and the integral impact both have made on his life. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Haruki Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a slew of critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and—even more important—on his writing. Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and includes settings ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvellous lens of sport emerges a cornucopia of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs and the experience, after the age of fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in distance running.

Ross Mallorys perfect life ended a year ago when his wife Jenny died. That was when he gave up, and began waiting for death to come for him as well. Now things have changed, and not all of it for the better. Now that he has met his neighbor Susan, who is suddenly obsessed with jogging. Ross soon falls into her obsession and along the way the mystery that is Susan grows. Where is she going? Why is he being forced to go along with her? How can he be falling in love with this woman? What are these living shadows that have invaded his life with fear? And is Jenny really coming back from beyond the grave to stop him?

The last jog I took marked me for life. The home invasion was real. I really did have my hands tied and my eyes covered. My adoptive father really was naked, laying there wondering when the beatings from the men in black masks would end. His back bloodied, his face paler than I'd ever seen before. That one window of escape was too risky. My disabled brother was left behind while my adoptive mother mysteriously escaped the horror of it all. The gun went off and hearing in my ears ceased.

JOGGING THROUGH SPACE tells the story of the author's courageous journey in recovering from the long-term effects of life-threatening brain tumo(u)r surgery. As she researched therapeutic mind-body techniques for dealing with each physical, mental, emotional and spiritual challenge, she finally came to realize that she had compiled a simple handbook of 60 key pathways to feeling better. In this book, she presents each pathway clearly and concisely, showing how she came upon it-- techniques which anyone can use who is feeling persistent challenges in their life. "JOGGING THROUGH SPACE is an anti-depressant between two covers. Mary Morgan McKnight, in a day-to-day account of her remarkable experience with nearly devastating brain surgery, describes the strategies she devised to cope with its effects. This book's vignettes of courage, love and kindness reveal the ability of the human spirit to not only survive adversity, but to build from it." -- Robin Brown M.D. "I am so impressed with Mary McKnight's book, JOGGING THROUGH SPACE. It is absolutely unique and beautiful -- like nothing else I've seen! It would be most effective for anyone who is depressed, hurting, dealing with pain management, or just wanting to improve their life and be inspired. The book is as lovely and gentle as is Mary. " -- PMH Atwater, Author, COMING BACK TO LIFE and BEYOND THE LIGHT. "Mary Morgan McKnight's JOGGING THROUGH SPACE" is a refreshing reminder of how precious life is, and how frail and vulnerable all of us are at times. I keep this book next to my desk and take the time daily to read a few pages to anchor its honest, candid observations and suggestions. This book is a priceless treasure of sincerity and simplicity." --Tom Matters, U.S. Marine Corps Veteran