Running Resources
There are a wealth of resources to learn more about running and to connect with other runners. Here are a few of our favorite links - and feel free to suggest more!
For further information, please feel free to review the following pages:
Web Sites:
www.runningco.com - South Jersey Running Companies website
Google Pedometer or for Moorestown directly - Moorestown Pedometer - This is a great tool that let’s you trace the route you run and get an exact measurement of the distance.
Scullion - Scullion runs the great web site of race results in New Jersey.
Burlington County XC - Ed Colona's Burlington County Cross Country Site
Burlington County Track - Ed Colona's Burlington County Track Site
South Jersey Track Coaches
Shore Coaches - Site for the Shore Coaches Cross Country Meet.
Courier Post Varsity Page
Dyestat - National High School Track Coverage
New Jersey Links - a list of great links
Running Videos - a very cool list of old videos - Prefontaine, Lasse Viren, Frank Shorter, Roger Bannister, Jim Ryun, Sebastian Coe, Alan Webb, Bob Kennedy, and even high school Footlocker Championships
Running Works - Running Works is the camp Moorestown Distance runners attend each year in August in the Poconos. Run by Marcus O'Sullivan, the Villanova Coach and sub-4 miler, and Steve Shaklee, the great coach from Cherokee.
Cherokee - The Cherokee Cross Country Web site - the finest high school distance running program in South Jersey for the past 10 years.
CBA - Simply the finest cross country program in the state of New Jersey for the past 30+ years.
Doctors:
Dr. Andrew Collier, Orthopaedic. His office is at 2410 S Broad St # 200
Philadelphia, PA. (215) 334-3350. Although he lives in Moorestown.
Dr. Collier is the father of one of our own cross country runners, Ryan Collier, and lives in Moorestown. He is the doctor who saw to Coach Bickel and his multiple foot fractures, and has also attended to various other team members. He knows sports injuries very well, and is a good person to see for things like suspected stress fractures, or ligament and muscle and knee issues (although sometimes these issues may be caused by foot placement and need orthotics to correct).
Magazines:
I highly recommend Running Times. It is a bit more sophisticated than Runners World – which is aimed more at the casual runner than the competitive runner. If you want to borrow a copy – just ask Coach Bickel.
Track & Field News is the full coverage at the College and World level. If you want to borrow a copy, just ask Coach Bickel.
Books:
Daniels' Running Formula by Jack Daniels. This is a great book if you want to know in more depth some of the scientific principles that drive our Moorestown distance running program.
The Perfect Mile : Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It by Neal Bascomb. This is more of a novel that tells the story of how three runners pursued the elusive 4:00 Mile. Not to spoil the ending, but Roger Bannister broke it in 1954. The current record is 3:43 by Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj, set in 1999.
Sub 4:00: Alan Webb and the Quest for the Fastest Mile by Chris Lear. This book follows the life of Alan Webb during his first year at Michigan.
Running with The Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross-Country Team by Chris Lear. This is about Cross Country, but is actually a better book than Sub 4:00. It is my personal favorite running book.
Alberto Salazar's Guide to Road Racing : Championship Advice for Faster Times from 5K to Marathons by Alberto Salazar and Richard A. Lovett. Although not specifically about track or Cross Country, this is a great book on all the basics of distance running by one of the finest runners in US history.
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