Healthy Running Step by Step: Self-Guided Methods for Injury-Free Running: Training - Technique - Nutrition - Rehab - Softcover

Roy M. Wallack wants to be fit forever. A Southern California writer, editor, and author who specializes in running, cycling, triathlon, fitness training, gear, and adventure travel, he has competed in some of the world’s toughest cycling, running, and multisport events, and has no plans to stop. A longtime fitness-gear columnist and feature writer for the Los Angeles Times, he is the former editor of Triathlete, Bicycle Guide, and California Bicyclist magazines and a contributor to a variety of magazines, including Outside, Men’s Journal, Runner’s World, Muscle & Fitness, Bicycling, Mountain Bike, Playboy, Competitor, Consumer’s Digest, and others. Convinced that staying fit is one of the keys to happiness and that we all can be lifelong athletes, Roy has authored and coauthored several books that lay out plans for high-level, long-term fitness: Barefoot Running Step by Step (2011); Be a Better Runner (2011), Run for Life: The Breakthrough Plan for Fast Times, Fewer Injuries, and Spectacular Lifelong Fitness (2009), Bike for Life: How to Ride to 100 (2005), and The Traveling Cyclist: 20 Worldwide Tours of Discovery (1991), which describes his thousands of miles of bike trips around the world, including the first one into the Soviet Union, in 1988. A former collegiate wrestler, Roy has competed in hundreds of running, cycling, and triathlon races and has participated in some of the world’s toughest endurance events, such as the Himalayan 100-mile Stage Race; Badwater Ultramarathon; the weeklong Eco-Challenge and Primal Quest adventure races; the 750-mile (1,200 km) Paris-Brest-Paris randonée; and epic multiday mountain-bike stage races, including TransAlp and TransRockies Challenges, La Ruta de los Conquistadores, BC Bike Race, and the Breck Epic. He was inducted into the 24 Hours of Adrenalin Solo Hall of Fame in 2008 and finished second in the World Fitness Championship in 2004.