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You CAN Go the Distance! Marathon Training Guide: Advice, Plans & Motivation for All Runners
If you’ve ever thought about running a marathon, this book is for You!
If you think you can’t run a marathon, Bruce Van Horn will show you that you CAN go the distance!
If you have “Run a Marathon” on your Bucket List, this is the book you want to read first! With the information and motivation you’ll receive, you will be able to say “I ran a Marathon!”
“Bruce, I love the chapter! I feel honored that you would include Yasso 800s in your book!” —Bart Yasso, CRO, Runner’s World
“Bruce Van Horn understands the new world of engagement better than anyone I know. He is constantly uplifting and coaching others. He is always available, helping others get over their plateaus, and move to the next level. Bruce will help take “can’t” out of your vocabulary and replace it with “CAN.” He constantly puts out value into the world which makes the world a much better place.”—JB Glossinger, CEO & Founder — MorningCoach.com & Alive Foundation
You CAN Go the Distance! is much more than just a marathon training guide.
Inside every chapter, Bruce Van Horn, coaches you with training techniques from years of experience and infuses them with his own brand of motivation and inspiration which, literally, hundreds of thousands of people have come to love him for.
Most people never even attempt a marathon because they are convinced they cannot possibly run 26.2 miles. What they forget is that every world-class runner started at the same place. Perhaps the hardest part about running a marathon is making the decision to actually try it!
This book gives you the confidence, motivation and inspiration you need, along with rock-solid marathon training advice and convinces you to take the word “Can’t” out of your vocabulary and replace it with the word “CAN!”
Bruce Van Horn has the heart of a true coach. He loves to see others break through their fears and self-doubt to reach new goals. He is passionate, as you’ll soon learn, about your success.
This is also not JUST a book!
www.YouCanGoTheDistance.com is a website built as an on-line community for readers to come and ask questions, get more advice, and share their success stories. Get the book and come join the community!
Big Words to Little Me: Advice to the Younger Self
Big Words to Little Me is a girls guidance book that offers advice on how to navigate through some of life’s challenges as we grow from little girls to young women. By exploring Awareness, Confidence, Responsibilities, Relationships and Spirituality, this book is sure to help build a better sense of identity and power in young girls.
Pleasure 101: Advice from A Quiet & Classy Nympho (Love, Sex, and Self-Empowerment) (Volume 1)
Advice to Writers: A Compendium of Quotes, Anecdotes, and Writerly Wisdom from a Dazzling Array of Literary Lights
In Advice to Writers, Jon Winokur, author of the bestselling The Portable Curmudgeon, gathers the counsel of more than four hundred celebrated authors in a treasury on the world of writing. Here are literary lions on everything from the passive voice to promotion and publicity: James Baldwin on the practiced illusion of effortless prose, Isaac Asimov on the despotic tendencies of editors, John Cheever on the perils of drink, Ivan Turgenev on matrimony and the Muse. Here, too, are the secrets behind the sleight-of-hand practiced by artists from Aristotle to Rita Mae Brown. Sagacious, inspiring, and entertaining, Advice to Writers is an essential volume for the writer in every reader.”The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.” –A.J. Liebling
There are at least as many theories about writing as there are writers to expound them. In Advice to Writers Jon Winokur has collected some of the best bons mots ever penned on the literary life. In chapters covering such diverse topics as agents, publishers, critics, and process, Winokur lets writers speak for themselves–and often the advice is contradictory: “The professional guts a book through–in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve,” John Gregory Dunne opines. “It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life,” André Gide ripostes. There is advice on grammar and style, on dialogue, plot, and character, and also on topics such as occupational hazards and drink (surely a subset of those hazards). “Write first, drink later,” Patrick McGrath suggests. “To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.” (Poet and essayist Philip Larkin, on the other hand, advises, “Get stewed: Books are a load of crap.”)
Novices looking for practical information on the nuts and bolts of the business may not find it here. On the other hand, advice from the likes of David Remnick, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison, Maxwell Perkins, Isaac Asimov, Samuel Johnson, Calvin Trillin, P.D. James, and many, many other professional scribes can serve to inspire. At the very least, this potpourri of words to the wise will keep the incipient writer amused between drafts. –Alix Wilber
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Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better: Wise Advice for Leaning into the Unknown
When her granddaughter was accepted to Naropa University, the celebrated author Pema Chödrön promised that she’d speak at the commencement ceremony.
Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better contains the wisdom shared on that day.
“What do we do when life doesn’t go the way we hoped?” begins Pema “We say, ‘I’m a failure.”
But what if failing wasn’t just “okay,” but the most direct way to becoming a more complete, loving, and fulfilled human being?
Here, Pema Chödrön offers us her heartfelt advice on how to face the unknown―in ourselves and in the world―and how our missteps can open our eyes to see new possibilities and purpose.
For readers of all faiths who are at a life crossroads, this brilliant gem of clarity is sure to earn its place in our kitchens, offices, and backpacks, ready to help us get back on our feet and into our hearts.
Includes an in-depth interview with Pema Chödrön and Tami Simon.
Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better: Wise Advice for Leaning into the Unknown
When her granddaughter was accepted to Naropa University, the celebrated author Pema Chödrön promised that she’d speak at the commencement ceremony.
Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better contains the wisdom shared on that day.
“What do we do when life doesn’t go the way we hoped?” begins Pema “We say, ‘I’m a failure.”
But what if failing wasn’t just “okay,” but the most direct way to becoming a more complete, loving, and fulfilled human being?
Here, Pema Chödrön offers us her heartfelt advice on how to face the unknown―in ourselves and in the world―and how our missteps can open our eyes to see new possibilities and purpose.
For readers of all faiths who are at a life crossroads, this brilliant gem of clarity is sure to earn its place in our kitchens, offices, and backpacks, ready to help us get back on our feet and into our hearts.
Includes an in-depth interview with Pema Chödrön and Tami Simon.
Mother Advice To Take With You To College: Humor, Inspiration and Wisdom To Go
In Mother Advice To Take With You To College: Humor, Inspiration and Wisdom To Go, Kathleen Buckstaff, award-winning author, former Los Angeles Times humor columnist, and mother of three children, shares wise and humorous illustrations and stories that are full of truth and love.
With over 65 illustrations, Kathleen uses line drawings to talk to her son about hygiene, how to love someone, being loyal, overcoming adversity, drinking, the importance of exercise, good friends, the beauty of nature and many other essential life subjects.
Told in an open and loving voice, Mother Advice To Take With You To College is a book that will make feel grateful Kathleen approaches topics many avoid. You will laugh out loud, cry and feel the power and wisdom of motherly love.
This is a book parents will want to read long before their children leave home. It is also a book every college bound student will want to memorize. A perfect gift for any parent or graduate.
1,001 Pearls of Runners’ Wisdom: Advice and Inspiration for the Open Road
Within these pages, runners will find a wealth of knowledge, expertise, and even a little humor to encourage them in their sport. But whether comical or serious, the quotes contained here represent the finest writing and wisdom on running. Geared towards everyone from the long-distance enthusiast to the relative or friend of one, the musings collected are poignant, sentimental, and amazing. 1,001 Pearls of Runners’ Wisdom covers a wide swath of topics, ranging from training to coaching to marathons to shoes to diet, and even barefoot or natural running, a new trend inspired by Christopher McDougall’s national bestseller, Born to Run.
“I started the Boston Marathon as a 20-year-old girl, and came out the other end a grown woman.”
Kathrine Switzer
“It has been said that the love of the chase is an inherent delight in mana relic of an instinctive passion.”
Charles Darwin
“A lot of people run a race to see who’s the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts.”
Steve Prefontaine
“Don’t worry, everyone slows over time.”
Bill Rodgers
“There’s nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased Scotsman.”
Groundskeeper Willy, from The Simpsons
“Speed is sex … distance is love.”
David Blaike, Canadian ultrarunner
“Gazelles run when they’re pregnant. Why should it be any different for women??”
Joan Ullyot, M.D.
“I’m afraid the reason so many new runners quit is because they never get past the point of feeling like they have to run.”
John Bingham
“Run softly by imagining a helium balloon attached to your head.”
Lieutenant Colonel (Dr.) Dan Kuland, U.S. Air Force Chief of Health Promotion
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
Jim Ryun
“They were the lightest shoes I could find.”
Ron Hill, elite British long-distance runner, on why he ran barefoot
“People [say to] me after a race, ‘I get so many blisters from shoes, if I run barefoot, it’s going to be worse.’ And I say, ‘Well that’s why I stopped wearing shoes because I got tired of getting blisters.'”
Ken Bob Saxton, aka Barefoot Ken Bob,” has run 76 marathons, 75 of them shoeless, since 1997
“The mile has all the elements of drama.”
Roger Bannister
“Anything worth doing is going to be difficult.”
Fauja Singh, 100 years old, after finishing the 2011 Toronto Marathon in 8:25
“One cannot run away from his behind.”
African proverb