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Born To Run
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| NZ$ 29.99 each |
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| Author: Christopher McDougall |
| Published by: Profile Publishing |
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At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, came first in a prestigious 100-mile race wearing a toga and sandals. A small group of the world's top ultra-runners (and the awe-inspiring author) make the treacherous journey into the canyons to try to learn the tribe's secrets and then take them on over a course 50 miles long.
With incredible energy and smart observation, McDougall tells this story while asking what the secrets are to being an incredible runner. Travelling to labs at Harvard, Nike, and elsewhere, he comes across an incredible cast of characters, including the woman who recently broke the world record for 100 miles and for her encore ran a 2:50 marathon in a bikini, pausing to down a beer at the 20 mile mark.
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Sport Motivation : Training your mind for peak performance
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| NZ$ 45.00 each |
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| Author: Ken Hodge |
| Published by: Raupo Pub. NZ (ex-Reed) |
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Sport Motivation covers all the bases for achieving excellence in sport, treating the mind as an essential part of sport training. It presents chapters on the skills and methods of Psychological Skills Training (PST), anxiety and peak performance, self-confidence, motivation and mental toughness, coping with pressure, communication and team-building, concentration, psychological rehabilitation from injury, goal-setting, planning a total training programme and using training worksheets. This revised and fully updated edition is illustrated with photos, diagrams and tables, and making use of numerous case studies from sporting heroes such as Sir Edmund Hillary, Dame Susan Devoy and Lance Armstrong. Sport Motivation's content and style is suitable for athletes and coaches of all ages and at all levels.
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The Awa Book of New Zealand Sports Writing
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| NZ$ 40.00 each |
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| Author: Harry Ricketts (editor) |
| Published by: Awa Press |
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New Zealand is a sports-mad country, a state of affairs that is mirrored by a wealth of writing on sport and sports - not only by sports journalists, but by novelists, poets, columnists, historians, essayists and academics. In this sweeping and often surprising anthology, Harry Ricketts casts the net over both much-loved works, such as Lloyd Jones's The Book of Fame on rugby, and long-lost treasures such as Samuel Butler's poem 'The English Cricketers'. The collection traverses sports as diverse as fly-fishing, athletics, motor-racing and mountaineering, and may even introduce you to some you haven't heard of.
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