Run To Win

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Run to Win: The Training Secrets of the Kenyan Runners describes the development of running in Kenya from the 1960s until nowadays. It lets coaches speak, who have strongly influenced the rise of the East-African nation to a world power in sports, and it shows how running has also become a big business.The reader will learn about the training secrets of the stars and will also receive valuable tips for his own career or sports life, be it as an amateur jogger or an ambitious runner.This book is a must-have for all running coaches and runners, and also for all those who want to learn more about the background and secrets of the Kenyan success story.Jürg Wirz is a freelance journalist and author, based since 1999 in Eldoret, Kenya. He is the founder of a renowned Swiss Running magazine and writes for several journals from Runner’s World to the IAAF-magazine. He has also published several books on running. Jürg Wirz can claim for himself that he knows Kenyan Running like no other journalist.Cardinal Publishers Group is the distributor of Meyer & Meyer Sport books.