{"id":3067,"date":"2014-09-03T21:28:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T01:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/09\/03\/the-marathon-man\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:28:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:28:08","slug":"the-marathon-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-marathon-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marathon Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13895\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/bill-pierce-india.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13895\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13895 lazyload\" alt=\"Dr. Bill Pierce in India\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/bill-pierce-india.jpg\" width=\"233\" height=\"295\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 233px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 233\/295;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Bill Pierce in India<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bill Pierce, a health sciences professor at Furman, is well known throughout the running world as the co-author of <i>Run Less, Run Faster: Become a Faster, Stronger Runner with the Revolutionary FIRST Training Program<\/i>, which has become something of a bible for modern runners. He recently took a whirlwind tour of India, where he talked to runners in Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore and New Delhi. A veteran of 39 marathons, Pierce was there to spread the word on importance of staying healthy, fit and of course, on running.\u00a0His presence in India led to a lot of media coverage about his theories of running, including stories in <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/telangana\/spreading-the-word-on-good-health\/article6347297.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/b> and <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Leisure\/v0z6DtrYUZUJCBK86nupFM\/Bill-Pierce-the-marathon-man.html\">Live Mint<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Pierce, a health sciences professor at Furman, is well known throughout the running world as the co-author of <i>Run Less, Run Faster: Become a Faster, Stronger Runner with the Revolutionary FIRST Training Program<\/i>, which has become something of a bible for modern runners. He recently took a whirlwind tour of India, where he talked to runners in Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore and New Delhi. A veteran of 39 marathons, Pierce was there to spread the word on importance of staying healthy, fit and of course, on running.His presence in India led to a lot of media coverage about his theories of running, including stories in <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/telangana\/spreading-the-word-on-good-health\/article6347297.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/b> and <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Leisure\/v0z6DtrYUZUJCBK86nupFM\/Bill-Pierce-the-marathon-man.html\">Live Mint<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-health-sciences","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}