Runner's World Complete Book of Women's Running

Designed specifically to address the unique challenges and rewards for women runners, this comprehensive resource provides the most current practical advice available anywhere for women runners of all levels.

With clear photographs, running sidebars, and testimonials from women runners of all ages and abilities, Dagny Scott Barrios and the experts at Runner's World have created this singular guide, where women will discover how to:

• train for any race, from a 5K to a marathon
• eat nutritiously and for maximum energy
• lose weight permanently
• deal with self-consciousness and body image
• run during pregnancy and through menopause
• choose the best clothes and accessories
• run anywhere safely
• prevent and treat injuries, especially those that women are most likely to encounter

DAGNY SCOTT BARRIOS is a writer, editor, and public speaker specializing in running and women's sports. She is the author of two other Rodale running books: Runner's World Complete Guide to Injury Prevention and Runner's World Complete Guide to Trail Running. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.