How She Did It

The road from a high school track to an Olympic starting line is long and sometimes shadowy Obstacles like chronic injuries underfueled nutrition and coercive coaching can threaten to derail careers before theyrsquove even begun Frustrated by seeing young talent burn out before reaching their potential professional distance runner Molly Huddle and college coach Sara Slattery have teamed up with trailblazing running legends and sports medicine professionals to create an essential guide to reach your running potentialnbspThis isnbspHow She Did Itmdashan instructional and inspirational collection of stories and advice for female runners The book begins with key information from the professionals who help make athletic excellence possible trainers physicians nutritionists and sports psychologists Then yoursquoll hear the firstperson accounts of fifty women whorsquove done it themselves From the pioneers who fought tirelessly for womenrsquos inclusion in the sport to the names splashed across headlines today featured athletes includenbspnbspJoan Benoit Samuelson bull Patti Catalano Dillon bull Madeline Manning Mims bull Paula Radcliffe bull Deena Kastor bull Brenda Martinez bull Shalane Flanagan bull Emma Coburn bull Raevyn Rogers bull Molly Seidel bull and morenbspWith Molly and Saranbspguiding the way these athletes share their empowering stories biggest regrets funniest moments and hardwon advice Collectively these voices are the embodiment of strength meant to educate inspire and motivate you to see how farmdashand how fastmdashyou can go