Back Issue: January 2012
Table of Contents
As featured in the January 2012 issue of Running Times Magazine
On the Cover:
Erase Soreness + Stiffness: A Runner's Guide to Self-Massage
Get Serious in 2012:
+ How to Train, Not Just Run
+ Why You Should Run More Often
+ How to Test Yourself for Fitness + Flexibility
+ When a Coach is Essential
World's Best Places to Train: Kenya, Boulder, Alps, Mexico, Pyrenees, Flagstaff
Making the Team
+ Team USA, National Identity + Immigration
+ 1984: Most Memorable Marathon Trials
Features_
The Gift of Being Coached
How a coach taught me to care about running faster and how to get there
by Rachel Toor
Toors Training: A Report from the Coach
by Bill Pierce
How's Your Running Body?
by Phil Wharton
How Fast Should I Run?
by Lisa Rainsberger
Rare Air
Train where elite athletes log hard mileage at high altitude in preparation for the 2012 Olympics
by Ysbrand Visser
Patriot Games
Reflections on national identity, migration, professionalism, Team USA and our sport
by Jonathan Beverly
+ Chasing the American Dream
by Jill Hudgins
1984
Looking back on the best of times for the men's Olympic marathon trials
by Marc Bloom
Columns_
Performance Page: Hodgepodge Isn't a Training Program
You need a method to your madness
by Greg McMillan, M.S.
Grandstand View: Record Runaround
Why the world marathon record is a discussion, not a number
by Parker Morse
Departments_
Editor's Note
Letters
Shorts: The Race of Their Lives; New Winter Running Jackets; Get to Know: Bobby Curtis; Through Thick and Thin; Book Reviews: On the Edge
Owner's Manual: Doubles Time; Self-Massage the Runner's Way
High School: Timing Your Fuel
College: Delayed Gratification
Masters: Run First, Train Later; Age Group Ace: Carrie Parsi
Trails: Sweet Success on Top of the World; Snowshoe Racing 101; Wild Things: Saucony ProGrid Outlaw
Racing: The Pacing Paradox; Leading Edge: Blake Russell; Footsteps: The First African Olympic Marathon Champions
Art of the Run