{"id":9193,"date":"2021-02-19T15:47:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T15:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/02\/19\/still-running-furman-professors-book-enters-third-edition-with-updated-workouts-for-speed-safety\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:38:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:38:35","slug":"still-running-furman-professors-book-enters-third-edition-with-updated-workouts-for-speed-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/still-running-furman-professors-book-enters-third-edition-with-updated-workouts-for-speed-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Running: Professors\u2019 book enters third edition with updated workouts for speed, safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s one thing to tie your shoes and hit the pavement; it\u2019s another to do it with science behind you.<\/p>\n

\u201cRun Less, Run Faster,\u201d puts the shoes and the science together. The third edition of the book by Bill Pierce, health sciences professor emeritus, and Scott Murr \u201984, assistant professor of health sciences, was \u00a0released on Jan. 19.<\/p>\n

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Professor Emeritus Bill Pierce.<\/p><\/div>\n

Pierce and Murr have completed more than 5,000 training runs together, beginning when Murr was a Furman senior and Pierce joined the faculty. Today, Pierce is retired after 36 years in Furman’s health sciences department and Murr teaches in the same department.<\/p>\n

Their book, first published in 2007, offers detailed workouts designed to improve the variables in a runner\u2019s performance while reducing risk of injury, especially from overtraining. It includes specific plans for novice, intermediate and experienced runners with goals ranging from a 5K to a marathon.<\/p>\n

Pierce said runners tend to be disciplined, motivated people with a \u201ctell me what to do, and I\u2019ll do it\u201d mindset. The book caters to that. \u201cFor 16 weeks, you don\u2019t have to think, you just have to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Pierce and Murr have each run more than 40 marathons, including the Boston Marathon, which Pierce has run in five different decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe became convinced that our training programs were something we could share with others,\u201d Pierce said.<\/p>\n

The programs also are tied to the classroom: Furman students assist with research in the department\u2019s Human Performance Lab, where runners can come for personalized assessments and feedback.<\/p>\n

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Cover of “Run Less, Run Faster.”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Assistant Professor Scott Murr.<\/p><\/div>\n

A few key points before you tie your own laces:<\/p>\n

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  1. Running requires a plan. (And \u201cI\u2019ll run every day\u201d is not a plan.)<\/li>\n
  2. Running is one of the most widely accessible physical activities, requiring little more than shoes, shorts and a t-shirt.<\/li>\n
  3. Running is as much science as it is sport. The best workouts purposely improve a specific variable that impacts performance, such as oxygen consumption, running gait or lactate threshold.<\/li>\n
  4. Running mileage is the greatest predictor of injuries. \u201cRun less\u201d doesn\u2019t mean train less \u2013 it means alternating runs with cross-training workouts that reduce impact and lower the risk of injury.<\/li>\n
  5. Running less can be more effective than running \u201cjunk miles\u201d as an approach to healthier, stronger and faster running.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It\u2019s one thing to tie your shoes and hit the pavement; it\u2019s another to do it with science behind you. \u201cRun Less, Run Faster,\u201d puts the shoes and the science […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-health-sciences","category-top-four-news-1st-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9193","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\/272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}