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Marathon and Half-Marathon Training Seminar with Bill Rodgers March 21-22, 2008 East Lansing, Michigan Running Research News is very pleased to announce our Marathon and Half-Marathon Training Seminar, with a guest appearance by Bill Rodgers. Rodgers is a former American-record-holder in the marathon who is best known for his victories in the Boston Marathon and the New York City Marathon in the late 1970s. Rodgers won both races four times each between 1975 and1980, twice breaking the American record at Boston with times of 2:09:55 in 1975 and 2:09:27 in 1979. In 1977 Bill won the Fukuoka Marathon, making him the only runner ever to hold the championship of all three major marathons at the same time. Bill was a member of the 1976 U.S. Olympic team and won the bronze medal at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 1975. Rodgers' most-remarkable year on the road-racing circuit came in 1978 when he won 27 of the 30 races he entered, including the Pepsi 10,000-Meter Nationals (with a new world road 10K best time of 28:36.3). In the same year, Bill won the Falmouth Road Race and the Boston and New York Marathons. Rodgers is also the former world-record-holder for 25 kilometers as he broke Pekka Paivarinta's world record with a time of 1:14.11.8 on a track in Saratoga, California in 1979. Track and Field News ranked Rodgers #1 in the world in the marathon in 1975, 1977 and 1979. Bill has won a total of 21 marathons in his career. The seminar will teach you exactly how to train for the marathon and half-marathon. When you leave the seminar room on Saturday night, you will have all the tools you need to reach your full marathon potential. You will be ready to implement the key workouts which optimize your marathon and half-marathon fitness. You will learn how to perform the running-specific strengthening activities which improve your running economy - and also the moves which dramatically decrease your risk of injury. Of course, you will learn how to set an appropriate goal pace for your marathon or half-marathon - and how to include goal-pace segments in your long runs so that you are truly ready to run at planned speed on race day. You will understand marathon and half-marathon sports nutrition, so that you will use sports drinks, gels, and water in an optimal way on race day - and so that your muscle-glycogen stores will be totally maxed out when you toe the starting line. You will learn the 11 performance-harming mistakes that most marathoners make – and how to avoid them. Owen Anderson, Ph. D. and Bill Rodgers will give you marathon- and half-marathon training plans which will carve huge chunks of time from your current marathon and half-marathon times. Join us for a tremendous weekend in East Lansing, Michigan! Sign-Up Now at the intorductory price of $295 Regularly $495! This introductory offer won't last.