Run For Your Life: A Book For Beginning Women Runners [Mass Market Paperback]

Deborah Reber (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2002

Both a great reference and a powerful motivational tool, Run For Your Life: A Book for Beginning Women Runners provides advice that will get readers started in a sport that benefits both body and mind.

With over twenty years of running experience, Deborah Reber shares her vast understanding and love of running to every woman, whether she is an experienced runner or simply thinking about taking that first jog.

Run For Your Life covers everything an aspiring runner needs to know, including:

* Running Rewards-fitness, freedom, and feeling fine
* The Basics-how to warm up, stride right, and breathe easy
* Where to Run-from the streets where you live to off-trail adventures
* Motivation Techniques-how to use that Rocky theme to your best advantage
* What to Wear-blending function and fashion
* Training Tips-going the distance, step by step, plus sample weekly workout schedules
* How to Get Connected-hook up with women's running organizations, publications, and sports apparel companies

With inspirational sidebars from women runners that will aid personal well-being, and a forward by Feddi Carlip, president of the Road Runners Club of America, Run For Your Life is the ideal guide for women of every age wanting to get on track to a healthier lifestyle.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Whether a beginning runner or a seasoned vet like me, Run for Your Life is a book that's like an old and trusted friend." -- Freddi Carlip, president of Road Runners Club of America

About the Author

Deborah Reber has been running for more than half her life, first as a sprinter and hurdler, qualifying for the Junior Olympic National Championships, and now as a distance runner. She has been a member of the Road Runners Club of America for the past seven years and currently runs more than a dozen races per year. She ran in three New York City Marathons and recently in the Los Angeles Marathon.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 218 pages
• Publisher: Perigee Trade; 1 edition (April 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399527567
• ISBN-13: 978-0399527562
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,443,160 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Debbie Reber hails from Reading, Pennsylvania, a city best known as the home of the 'Reading Railroad' from Monopoly and darned good pretzels.


Debbie graduated from Penn State University with a degree in Broadcast & Cable. (This was back in the stone ages when 'cable television' was a new phenomenon'it got its own major!). After graduation, she moved to NYC to make it big in the world of broadcast news, just like Holly Hunter's character in the movie by the same name. When that didn't happen, she decided to save the world instead, and produced videos, PSAs (public service announcements) and documentaries for CARE, UNICEF and the PBS show Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television.

While living in NYC, Debbie apparently decided that working fulltime didn't keep her busy enough, so she simultaneously attended The New School for Social Research, where she earned her MA in Media Studies, with a focus on documentary and media criticism.

With even more student loans to pay off, Debbie left the world of nonprofit and jumped into children's television, where she worked on Blue's Clues for Nickelodeon and developed original programming for Cartoon Network. It was while working at Cartoon Network that she sold her first book, Run for Your Life: A Book for Beginning Women Runners.

She loved the process of writing a book, and loved seeing her name in print even more. So in 2003, Debbie turned in the key to her corporate office and traded it in for a lime green Ikea chair, an all-in-one desk unit and a tiny corner of her den to eke out a living as a fulltime writer. She's never looked back. (Okay, there was that one time she looked back, but that was a while ago, and since then, things have been going smashingly well).

Debbie has written a number of books for teens, tweens and even preschoolers, including the new series from Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, The Real Deal and more than a dozen Blue's Clues books. Her latest book, In Their Shoes: Amazing Women Describing Amazing Jobs (Simon Pulse) comes out in April 2007.

Debbie lives in Seattle with her strikingly handsome husband Derin, adorable little boy Asher and trusty, white German Shepherd, Baxter. She is a volunteer running coach with the Puget Sound chapter of Girls on the Run, and an advisory board member for the teen girl mentoring organization, WriteGirl.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lifesaver, June 26, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Run For Your Life: A Book For Beginning Women Runners (Mass Market Paperback)

I have always had such a hard time sticking with any one type of exercise. I have always wanted to be a runner, but could never find a way to keep with it. Finally, a book which has completely changed my way of thinking about running! I have had so much fun running since I started using this book and I'm still committed!

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really great, July 1, 2002

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Jogger (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Run For Your Life: A Book For Beginning Women Runners (Mass Market Paperback)

I have to agree with the previous reviewers about this book. The tone is completely coversational, making it a fun and easy read, compared to so many other training manuals, which read like text books. This book isn't about "run 5 miles on Monday and Wednesday with you heart rate at 80% of VO2 Max" -- how can anyone get motivated with that??? This book is about how to make running enjoyable and workable for you. It's motivational and "do-able." It makes running not only possible, but fun. For that reason, although it is aimed at the beginning runner, it is perfect for any runner. I highly recommend it!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Getting back on track, May 29, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Run For Your Life: A Book For Beginning Women Runners (Mass Market Paperback)

What I think is so great about this book is that in addition to discussing the techniques and basics of running, it's incredibly motivational. I've been a runner for years. I know what to wear, where to run, etc... what I really need is help staying motivated. After reading Run for Your Life, for the first time I began to think about what running means to me not only physically but emotionally. The book guides you on how to make running more then just an exercise regime but a way of life.