Good racing doesn't just happen. It's a skill that must be honed with training and hard work. In Personal Best Running, Coach Mark Coogan shares his successful formula for running fast-while staying healthy and happy-without running taking over your life. Coach Coogan has produced numerous Olympic and champion runners. He will provide you with the physical and psychological strategies needed to build an aerobic base, balance hard work and recovery, improve running form, and turn adversity into an advantage. You'll find strengthening and warm-up exercises and will learn running drills that can make you a stronger runner. Plus, 30 video clips will show you the exercises and drills in action. In Personal Best Running, you'll find training schedules for everything from the mile to the marathon, with options for training length (by weeks) and weekly mileage. The plans are supplemented with Coogan's training and racing tips that you can incorporate into your own running strategy. You'll also get a personal look at what successful runners do: Coach Coogan imparts his own experiences as one of the sport's top runners and coaches, and he shares profiles of accomplished runners, such as Elle St. Pierre, Heather MacLean, Abbey D'Agostino Cooper, Sam Chelanga, and Alexi Pappas, who explain how Coogan's methods helped them reach their running potential. If you want to run better and race faster, now is your chance to train with Coach Coogan and Personal Best Running.