- Cathy Shipton, With Liz McColgan

Marathon Manual

By Cathy Shipton, With Liz McColgan
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An illustrated manual for beginners and improvers, covering all aspects of the training up to a marathon – week by week times, nutrition, warm up and cool-down exercises, the event itself, all aspects of health and physiology.

Tips from Liz McColgan, winner of the 1996 London Marathon, medallist Eamonn Martin and Cathy Shipton throughout , with excerpts from their running diaries.

Colour photos of big marathon moments, and of Liz and Cathy doing warm-up and cool-down routines.

Award-winning cartoonist, Observer’s Candy Guard’s cartoons featured.

Advice from top coaches and the medical advisor to the London Marathon and the British Heart Foundation.

Author: Cathy Shipton , Liz McColgan
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 20 Jan 1997
Pages: 160
ISBN: 978-0-7225-3342-0
Price: £9.99 (Export Price) , £9.99, €15.76
Cathy Shipton is best known in her role as Duffy for 8 years in Casualty. She is a familiar face on UK T.V. She is also a trained aerobics instructor and runs the marathon each year for the British Heart Foundation.Liz McColgan MBE is the UK’s best known woman endurance athlete and is the major star in marathon running and an Olympic Gold medallist.

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